Fundamentally Speaking
June 2015 Rainfall for Top Corn, Soybean States
Tale of two cities as far as U.S. corn crop conditions as of mid-July with a number of Eastern Corn Belt states suffering from excess moisture while most regions west of the Mississippi River save for Missouri continue to thrive.
The latest USDA crop ratings show a combined 16% of the Illinois corn crop either in the very poor or poor category, 23% for Indiana, 22% for Ohio and 16% for Missouri.
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This should be no surprise as more heavy rains in July have followed an extraordinarily wet June.
This graphic shows June 2015 precipitation in inches for the top 21 corn and soybean producing states, the amount of precipitation last month as a percent of the 1950-2014 June rainfall average and the highest amount of June precipitation any of these states have had since 1950.
No surprise that IL, IN and OH had their great amount of June precipitation at least since 1950 last month with all getting at least twice the amount of their normal June rainfall.
Missouri had its third highest amount of rainfall and interestingly Pennsylvania had their second highest amount of June rainfall since 1950 though the latest crop condition report shows 80% of that state's corn crop in either good or excellent condition.
The other states had good rains in June with only KS and MN having less than 100% of their normal June precipitation.
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