Extremely dry conditions in the Plains states and Western Corn Belt continue to be a concern.
“It’s as dry as I remember for quite a while, here in the fall,” says Joel Grams, who farms near Minden in south-central Nebraska. “We usually have one or two breaks during harvest due to weather and we just haven’t had any.
“I had to plant some cover crop after some seed corn got harvested and I had to run the pivots around on that.
