USDA's Joint Ag Weather Facility has provided the following weekly weather/crop highlights:

• EUROPE: Widespread Rain Eases Drought In Spain
  - Rain continues to provide a late boost to reproductive to filling wheat and barley in Spain.
  - Showers improve prospects for winter and spring grains from England and France into Italy and the Balkans.

• NORTHWESTERN AFRICA: Additional Showers Benefit Winter Crops
  - Light showers favor filling winter grains in Morocco but are too late for maturing crops.
  - Locally heavy rain in Algeria and Tunisia benefits reproductive to filling winter wheat and barley.

• MIDDLE EAST: Showers Maintain Soil Moisture For Winter Grain Development
  - Widespread showers slow cotton planting but favor winter crop growth from Turkey into western Iran.

• FSU: Western Rain Contrasts With Unseasonable Warmth And Dryness In The East
  - Periods of rain across Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia slow fieldwork but boost soil moisture for winter wheat, barley, and rapeseed.
  - Unseasonably warm, dry weather favors field preparations for spring wheat planting in Kazakhstan and central Russia, but reduces topsoil moisture.

• SOUTH ASIA: Drier Weather Returns
  - Seasonably dry weather returns to India, as cotton planting advances in the north.

• EAST ASIA: Rain Aids Winter And Spring Crop Development
  - In China, showers continue to benefit reproductive winter wheat and rapeseed as well as early doublecrop rice.

• SOUTHEAST ASIA: Wet Weather Slows Harvesting
  - Wet weather slows harvest activities from southern Vietnam into the southern Philippines, and south into Java, Indonesia.

• AUSTRALIA: Warm, Dry Weather Aids Summer Crop Harvesting
  - In southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, relatively cool, showery weather is replaced by warmer, drier weather, allowing cotton and sorghum harvesting to regain momentum.

• SOUTH AMERICA: Rain Benefits Brazil’s Winter Corn Crop
  - Beneficial rain boosts moisture for secondary (safrinha) corn in key production areas of central and southern Brazil.
  - In Argentina, warm, showery weather causes some interruptions in corn and soybean harvesting.

• SOUTH AFRICA: Mild, Mostly Dry Weather Dominates
  - Dry, somewhat warmer weather fosters drydown and maturation of summer crops.

• MEXICO: Beneficial Rain Continues Along The Gulf Coast
  - Showers maintain favorable prospects for winter sorghum and increase soil moisture for the early development of rain-fed corn and sugarcane.

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