*3.5. Substantiation of Crop Yield Declines with Excess Precipitation*

In the previous section, the existence of crop yield decline with excess precipitation was identified based on separate graphical relationships between crop yield and growing season total precipitation, and crop yield and maximum 4-day total precipitation. The presence of crop yield decline for excess precipitation are substantiated by the graphical plot of crop yield, growing season total precipitation, and maximum 4-day total precipitation together for Hunt county in TX. The thin green rectangle outlined in Figure 10 identifies the hotspots that substantiate our findings described in the previous section(s).

**Figure 10.** Graph showing rainfed sorghum yield, maximum 4-day total precipitation, and growing season total precipitation for Hunt County.
