Across the Corn Belt, a cool, dry weather pattern continues. Several Midwestern locations, including Indianapolis, Indiana, and Waterloo, Iowa, have received less than one-tenth of an inch of rain since mid-July. The eastern Corn Belt had abundant moisture reserves when the dry spell began, tempering impacts, but summer crops in drier areas of the upper Midwest have experienced increasing levels of stress. On August 1, more than one-fifth of the corn and soybeans in Minnesota and the Dakotas were rated in very poor to poor condition.
