Weather
Winter wheat harvest a bit delayed
Across the Corn Belt, cool, dry, breezy weather prevails across the upper Midwest. Meanwhile, showers and thunderstorms stretch from Michigan to southern Missouri, in conjunction with a cold front. The rain is maintaining abundant moisture reserves for corn and soybeans, but hampering winter wheat harvesting.
On the Plains, scattered showers are affecting central portions of the region, mainly Kansas. Elsewhere, cool, dry weather on the northern Plains contrasts with lingering heat in Texas. On July 6, the winter wheat harvest ranged from 13 to 18 percentage points behind the 5-year average pace in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska.
In the South, showers and thunderstorms in advance of a cold front are pushing across portions of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Elsewhere, hot, humid weather prevails. Most pastures and crops remain well-watered, but short-term dryness has begun to develop in parts of the Southeast. On July 6, at least half of the pastures were rated in good to excellent condition in every Southeastern State except South Carolina (40%).
In the West, hot, dry weather in California and the Northwest contrasts with widely scattered showers in the Great Basin and the Southwest. Crop conditions have deteriorated in parts of the Northwest, with more than one-quarter of Washington’s winter wheat (28%) and spring wheat (29%) rated very poor to poor on July 6.
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