Bryce Anderson

Light rain in November and emergency government assistance have China's top-producing wheat provinces in the home stretch on seeding the 2025-26 crop.

Reduced sun and favorable conditions for pests and diseases may have dropped yields by 25% in York County, Nebraska.

October rain in the North China Plain was the heaviest in 60 years. The record rainfall fell on a region in China which accounts for about 60% of the country's wheat production and almost one-third of its corn output.

The proposed 2026 federal science budget would be the lowest this century.

Fall's first freeze is as much as 2-3 weeks later than in 1970.

Above-normal winter temperatures forecast for Texas would favor the New World screwworm survival if the parasite were to migrate from Mexico.

Soil moisture is rated wet over high-production Kansas winter wheat districts as the new winter wheat cycle begins.

The percentage of U.S. corn areas in drought almost tripled in two weeks from early to mid-September.

A tornado outbreak on Sept. 14, 2025, pushed the North Dakota yearly tornado total past the old record of 61 from 1999.

Precipitation deficits of 2 to 4-plus inches in the past 30 days have brought widespread degradation to soil moisture conditions in the eastern Midwest.

Rainfed corn in the latest UN-L Hybrid-Maize yield forecast shows no better than average yield prospects east of the Mississippi River.

Rainfall forecast during these last few days of August would be the first occurrence of precipitation in almost a full month.

Rainfall forecast this week would be the first occurrence of precipitation in almost a full month.