Across the Corn Belt, cold, rainy weather is maintaining a sluggish fieldwork pace across the upper Midwest. This is further widening the gap between planting progress in northern corn and soybean production areas and the southern Corn Belt, where warm, dry weather prevails. On May 6, less than 10% of the intended corn acreage had been planted in Minnesota and the Dakotas, compared with 78% in Missouri and 74% in Illinois.
On the Plains, cool, rainy weather prevails from Montana to Nebraska, curtailing fieldwork.
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