Across the Corn Belt, several Midwestern locations
completed a record-wet October. Among those places was Des Moines, Iowa, where
October precipitation totaled 7.41 inches (281% of normal). Currently, cold
weather is limiting evaporation rates from still-soggy or snow-covered fields.
At daybreak, snow depths included 5 inches in Madison, Wisconsin, and 3 inches
in Rockford, Illinois. Wet and/or snow-covered soils, along with delayed crop
maturation, are helping to maintain the slowest harvest pace for U.S. corn and
soybeans since 2009.
Continue reading Drier, colder weather opens the month of November at Brownfield Ag News.
