Weather conditions are variable as harvest approaches across the corn belt.
Eric Snodgrass is the principal atmospheric scientist at Nutrien Ag Solutions.
“Some of the driest places in the corn belt—parts of Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Nebraska— were so dry in June, July, and the front half of August and there were some parts of Iowa at the end of August and the beginning of September that picked up a foot of rainfall,” he says.