I live in South Central Nebraska, from Southwest Nebraska and hunt both areas throughout the season. We are in a pretty bad drought here, less cover around and bird numbers are down. I have friends that jump the border and hunt North Central Kansas, they are seeing the same thing down into that area as well. This would be south of Harlan Reservoir-ish for reference. They thought things looked better the closer to I-70 they got. Southwest Nebraska is awful. Cover and birds are in considerably worse shape than they were with the drought of 2012. I have a friend that is from Atwood, they said it extends south at least that far. I'd guess that Oberlin to Bird City is probably going to be hard hunting, but I'm not sure how far south that extends.