Ag Weather Forum

A rapidly intensifying storm system, dubbed a "bomb cyclone," will enter the Plains on March 14. It will bring widespread impacts to the country east of the Rockies including strong winds, heavy snow, potential blizzard conditions, and severe weather.

National corn yields at or above trendline are featured in the top DTN weather analog years for the 2025 growing season.

A big storm system will move through the eastern half of the country through Wednesday, March 5. Widespread impacts including heavy snow, strong winds, blizzard conditions and severe weather are expected from the storm.

It has been one year since large wildfires broke out across the Texas Panhandle, but we will see a renewed risk for wildfires in the Great Plains again this spring.

The 2025 growing season will be full of challenges like almost every year. This year, threats likely return to the Western Corn Belt more so than the Eastern Corn Belt.

Spring precipitation forecasts offer mixed prospects for early 2025 crop season moisture.

Spring precipitation will be important due to low soil moisture reserves ahead of planting.

Although it's cold and downright brutal in the middle of the country this week, the pattern will abruptly change to warmer this weekend through much of next week.

Deeper soil freeze levels and some dieback of overwintering pests are possible with this recent cold wave.

This past fall, water levels along the Mississippi were very low but with the recent abundant precipitation, there's now a risk of flooding this week across some tributaries of the Mississippi.

A potent winter storm system will bring widespread snow, freezing rain, wind and severe storms capable of damaging winds and flooding over the next couple of days.

Dryness that lowered 2024 corn yields in the eastern Midwest is significantly less ahead of the start of fieldwork for 2025.

The weather pattern features multiple systems moving through the country during the next couple of weeks at least.

While wet season showers will ease up from east to west across central Brazil this week, it remains uncertain how much progress producers there can make from the slow start so far this season.

Corn Belt states are likely to end the December to February period with less than half their average snowfall.

La Nina is finally starting to kick in with a pattern change in early February.

Heat and dryness-affected production leads to a cut of more than half in Russia's wheat export supply to start 2025.

A weak La Nina is in place this winter, but it will not stick around long. What is expected for this spring and summer?

Slow-changing upper-air patterns tied to record-high world temperatures support winds driving catastrophic fires in the far West.

Some roller-coaster temperatures will occur this week, but we'll fall down the big hill this weekend after a cold front sweeps through the country.