The weather is starting to swing too dry after the very wet
start to the planting season.
The U.S. Drought Monitor reports pockets throughout the “I” states of Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, as well as Missouri and Michigan, have abnormally dry conditions.
“It is untimely dryness that has dried and crusted topsoils and that has added to some of the problems for these late-developing corn and soybeans.”
USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says there are areas that have received less than a quarter of their normal precipitation for July and shares an extreme in Illinois.
Continue reading Persistent dryness and cool temps threaten yields at Brownfield Ag News.
