Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms are
affecting some western production areas, including parts of the Missouri
Valley. Cool air is arriving across the upper Midwest, but hot, humid
conditions linger in the Ohio Valley. Only 68% of the U.S. soybeans were
setting pods by August 18, the slowest pace since 1996. That year, a record-low
63% of the soybeans had set pods on that date.
On the Plains, Wednesday early-morning thunderstorms
are particularly heavy across parts of Kansas and Nebraska.
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