Across the Corn Belt, scattered showers and thunderstorms are maintaining generally favorable growing conditions for corn and soybeans. However, pockets of drought in the southwestern Corn Belt have left soybeans rated 19% very poor to poor in Missouri, where topsoil moisture was rated 67% very short to short on June 17.
On the Plains, locally heavy showers and thunderstorms are affecting Nebraska and portions of neighboring states. A separate area of rain is falling across the northern High Plains.
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