The return of the rainy season to central Brazil is good news for second-crop corn development but may slow the soybean harvest.
Mike Palmerino
DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist
Mike Palmerino graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell with a bachelors of science degree in meteorology. He has been a consulting meteorologist to the grain and commodity futures industries and to news and information services for over 25 years.
Mike's consultations consist of critiquing the major computer forecast models and reporting on temperature and precipitation patterns both short and long range and their impact on agriculture in the major growing areas of the world.
Mike is a regular contributer to DTN On Air, DTN Week in Review and the monthly weather series reports on DTN. He works out of DTN's Woburn, Mass., office.
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Recent rains helped the safrinha corn crop in Brazil, but soybeans are maturing and being harvested so saw little benefit.