Across the Corn Belt, showers are further delaying fieldwork in central portions of the region. In contrast, drier, warmer weather across the Upper Midwest is allowing producers to commence planting of corn, soybeans and spring wheat.
On the Plains, below-normal temperatures across the north are maintaining a much-slower-than-normal pace of winter wheat development as well as spring planting and emergence. Farther south, showers are chipping away at the northern periphery of the southern Plains’ drought, though the core drought areas remain dry.
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