USDA's Joint Ag Weather Facility has provided the following weekly weather/crop highlights:
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EUROPE: Drought Continues In Spain
- Dry weather returns to Spain, maintaining drought concerns and lowering prospects for winter grains.
- Warm, dry weather across northern Europe accelerates fieldwork and winter crop development.
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NORTHWESTERN AFRICA: Rain Benefits Crops, But Mostly Dry In Morocco
- Rain benefits vegetative to reproductive winter grains, although portions of Morocco remain dry.
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MIDDLE EAST: Periods Of Rain And Snow Favor Winter Grains
- Periods of rain and mountain snow maintain favorable moisture reserves for vegetative (north) to reproductive (south) winter grains.
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FSU: Stormy Weather Boosts Moisture, Halts Fieldwork
- Locally heavy, wind-driven rain and snow fall across Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, halting fieldwork but providing additional soil moisture for spring growth.
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SOUTH ASIA: Heat Continues In India
- Seasonably hot weather continues across India, as winter crop harvesting progresses.
- Late-week thunderstorms in Pakistan hamper fieldwork and may cause localized lodging of unharvested wheat.
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EAST ASIA: Showers Benefit Spring Crops In Southern China
- Rain increases soil moisture for rice and corn in southern China.
- Warm weather promotes the development of winter wheat on the North China Plain.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA: Tropical Cyclone Pakhar Approaches Vietnam
- An early season tropical cyclone boosts moisture supplies for rice and coffee in southern Vietnam.
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AUSTRALIA: Beneficially Dry But Relatively Cool
- Dry weather favors summer crop maturation and harvesting in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, but relatively cool weather maintains a slower-than-normal rate of maturation.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Cool Weather Slows Growth Of Argentine Crops
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