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Crop Report Comments

Mike Palmerino
By  Mike Palmerino , DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist

There were no real surprises with the latest crop reports that came out on Monday afternoon. We continue to deal with issues of it being too cloudy, cool and wet in the eastern Midwest. This has stressed corn and soybeans with ponding of low spots in fields causing extensive yellowing of crops due to nitrogen leaching as well as plant mortality in some cases.

It is unusual, to say the least, to be dealing with this situation into the month of July. Normally we get concerned when temperatures turn hot and the weather turns dry for its potential impact on corn pollination. Based on the character of the weather patterns this growing season, it seems unlikely that we will be dealing with much concern over hot and dry weather for this area. It will come down to how much damage can this wet weather pattern ultimately cause to crops.

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Certainly the overall threat from cool and wet is nowhere near that of hot and dry. But, clearly, it is impacting crop conditions. The wet weather is also impacting the soft wheat crop with reports of the mature crop sprouting and affected by disease due to the inability of producers to get out into the fields to harvest. This is also hurting the planting of double-crop soybeans in the Ohio Valley, as well as single-season soybean crop plans in Missouri. Producers will likely continue to try to plant more soybeans through the end of the month as weather conditions allow due to plentiful soil moisture and not having to worry about an early end to the growing season in the southern portions of the Midwest.

The northwestern Midwest and Northern Plains are having an exceptional growing season so far, as crops respond to an early planting and a good mixture of sun and rain. Most corn and soybeans are rated in good to excellent condition.

Soil moisture supplies are still mostly adequate in the southern US favoring filling corn and developing soybeans. However, the weather this week will feature above-normal temperatures and little rainfall, which will deplete soil moisture and increase crop stress especially to pod-filling soybeans. The current long-range outlook for next week calls for less heat and some opportunities for rain. If this verifies, growing conditions will remain favorable.

Mike

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