Weather
Near-ideal weather across the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, dry weather and near- to below-normal temperatures are promoting soft red winter wheat harvesting and maintaining nearly ideal conditions for reproductive summer crops. Corn and soybean developmental delays are mostly restricted to northern production areas.
On the Plains, mostly dry weather accompanies a gradual warming trend. A few showers linger, however, across the southeastern Plains. On July 13, prior to the southern Plains’ most recent drought-easing rainfall event, subsoil moisture was rated 63% very short to short in Texas and 67% in New Mexico and Oklahoma.
In the South, locally heavy showers and thunderstorms are crossing southern Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley. Dry weather prevails in the Southeast, where pockets of short-term dryness persist.
In the West, monsoon showers have temporarily waned across the Great Basin and the Four Corners States. Meanwhile, hot, dry conditions are maintaining stress on rain-fed crops in the Northwest, where several dozen wildfires are actively burning and the risk for additional fires remains elevated.
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