Across the Corn Belt, sprinkles and snow flurries are confined to the Great Lakes region. Elsewhere, cool, dry weather prevails. A patchy snow cover is gradually melting in the western Corn Belt, where harvest activities were nearing completion when cold, stormy weather arrived in mid-October. In the eastern Corn Belt, a larger percentage of fields remain unharvested; for example, only about one-third of the corn was harvested by October 25 in Michigan and Ohio.
On the Plains, dry weather favors a gradual return to fieldwork, including winter wheat planting and sorghum and sunflower harvesting, following a period of cold, stormy weather.
