Across the Corn Belt, corn and soybean planting activities, as well as summer crop emergence and growth, continue in many areas under a warm, dry regime. However, locally heavy showers are spreading across the middle Mississippi Valley and developing in the western-most Corn Belt.
On the Plains, widespread showers and thunderstorms from Nebraska northward are slowing fieldwork but generally benefiting winter grains and summer crops. On May 13, prior to the recent and ongoing rainfall, North Dakota’s topsoil moisture was rated 47% very short to short.
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