Across the Corn Belt, dry weather favors corn and soybean harvest efforts, despite an increase in cloudiness. Although 34% of the U.S. soybean acreage was harvested during the last 2 weeks, overall progress—72% harvested by October 28—remains the slowest since 2009, when just 47% had been harvested.
On the Plains, pockets of excessive wetness continue to slow fieldwork in some areas from Kansas southward. On October 28, topsoil moisture was rated 42% surplus in Texas, along with 34% in Oklahoma and 22% in Kansas.
Continue reading A change underway on much of the Plains at Brownfield Ag News.
