Across the Corn Belt, a brief period of dry weather has largely ended. Currently, some of the heaviest showers are occurring in the eastern Corn Belt, where many of the most significant corn and soybean planting delays exist. On June 2, both corn and soybean planting were at least 40 percentage points behind the 5-year average pace in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and South Dakota. On the Plains, warm, mostly dry weather across the northern half of the region favors fieldwork and crop development.
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