Ag Weather Forum

Corn and soybean progress is now at a point which is typical of early July rather than mid-to-late July.

Global temperatures in June set a new record for the month since records began in 1880.

The good news is that a major cold front is expected to move across the Midwest over the weekend.

How extreme rain, flooding and climate change brought three separate areas of the U.S. together this July.

A midsummer cooling trend in the eastern Pacific Ocean may indicate drier times ahead for the Midwest.

Canadian Prairies rain over the next 10 days is expected to focus on northern and eastern crop areas.

Corn and soybean development is running one to three weeks behind normal in the Midwest.

Formation of tropical weather systems does not automatically transfer to rain in the Midwest.

A lack of crop growth in the northern and eastern Corn Belt continues to show the adverse effect of the historic wet spring of 2019.

Hot weather in the central U.S. during the first few days of July has only a brief sojourn before a new round of cooling develops.

Planting rates and crop conditions are at history-challenging low points following extremely heavy rain since mid-May.

Weather forecasters expect a cool and wet summer to challenge already-delayed crops.

A cool U.S. temperature trend in May was an outlier compared with global conditions.

Below-normal temperatures forecast for the U.S. Corn Belt over the next seven days promise to offer only limited growing degree day totals for the much delayed corn crop.

Corn and soybean planting are further along in the western Midwest than in the eastern Midwest, but unplanted acres remain in every state.

No change to the wet central U.S. trend is indicated in the next 10 to 14 days.

Below-normal temperatures forecast for the U.S. Corn Belt over the next seven days promise to offer only limited growing degree day totals for the much-delayed corn crop.

With heavy rains moving east of the Corn Belt, the director of the Midwest Climate Hub said farmers may have a window to get in the fields.

As of mid-Thursday, the models show some chances for showers in the Prairies during the next three days. The best chance for a drought-breaking rain will be in central Alberta.

Corn planting progress in the eastern Midwest is far behind the five-year average. Unfortunately, an active weather pattern is in the forecast for some of the areas that need more dry days for fieldwork.