Category: Weather

  • A patchwork quilt of field conditions in northern MN

    A technical agronomist with Channel Seed says corn and soybean conditions vary in northern Minnesota, based on when the crops were planted. “It’s like a quilt this year when it comes to the stages of corn and soybeans.” Derek Crompton tells Brownfield “the corn that went in around Mother’s Day is actually shoulder high, where…

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  • A drying trend ahead for the water-logged, wettest areas of Corn Belt, upper Midwest

    Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal rainfall from the southern Plains to the East Coast, including the lower Midwest, should contrast with drier-than-normal weather from the Pacific Northwest into the upper Midwest. Meanwhile, near- or below-normal temperatures are ahead across the nation’s mid-section, including the mid-South, much of…

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  • Brownfield Ag Weather Today

    Over the next 5 days, a procession of cold fronts will maintain active weather across the central and eastern U.S., with frequent showers and thunderstorms.  Some of the heaviest rain, locally 1 to 3 inches or more, will fall in nearly parallel strips—from the central Plains to the middle Atlantic Coast and from the upper…

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