Across the Corn Belt, a cool, mostly dry weather pattern continues. Filling summer crops are experiencing an absence of heat stress, although pockets of Midwestern drought remain a concern. Early Friday, showers and thunderstorms are encroaching on westernmost corn and soybean production areas, including the eastern Dakotas.
On the Plains, an ongoing showery weather pattern is causing minor fieldwork delays but generally benefiting rangeland, pastures, and immature summer crops, such as corn, cotton, and sorghum.
