Crop Production
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The Midwest is enjoying a reprieve from recent heat.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Another disturbance is expected to bring rain to the Corn Belt next week, but just light showers are expected for the northern High Plains.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Cool temps are expected to prevail in most areas from the Plains eastward.
Cool, dry conditions are expected for the area this weekend.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Our weighted Crop Condition Index shows ratings improved across most major corn producing states.
Cool air is expected to move into the region next week.
Our weighted Crop Condition Index reflects notable improvement with Kansas’ crop over the past week.
Our weighted Crop Condition Index shows Kansas led the decline in ratings after the recent wintry blast.
Our weighted Crop Condition Index reflects deterioration with both the SRW and HRW wheat crop.
But scouts noted a high degree of uncertainty due to the recent snow storm in western areas of the state.
Improvement in Kansas helped push the HRW wheat crop rating up nearly 6.7 points.
Consider input prices, market opportunities and agronomic challenges.
Illinois farmers can predict how much nitrogen loss they might prevent using a cover crop such as cereal rye—and also assess field conditions to manage covers alongside cash crops such as corn and soybeans.
Iowa’s damaged on-farm grain bins might take through 2022 to rebuild.
Following a three year decline, it appears farmland values may be stabilizing in 2018.
Where did all of the European corn borers go? The “late-night-driving-down-country-lanes windshield moth test” should have been a clue that something was up.
There were no major surprises in USDA’s latest WASDE report. USDA didn’t adjust U.S. corn or soybean yields in the July report, but cotton abandonment shows the brutal reality of this year’s drought.