Because of US Federal Holiday, the USDA report is delayed until Tuesday.
Crop conditions. Winter wheat emerged is starting to fall behind because of severe drought.
Very low moisture in huge areas of the Plains will cause germination to be poor in some places and early development/establishment to be poor in MANY places.
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U.S. farmers are harvesting #corn slower than analysts thought but #soybeans faster. Both the corn and soy (and #cotton/#sorghum) harvests are now ahead of the 5yr average for the date. Winter #wheat planting is progressing as expected but slower than average.
Soilmoisture anomaly:
These maps sometimes take a day to catch up to incorporate the latest data(the bottom map is only updated once a week).
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/US/Soilmst/Soilmst.shtml#
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https://mrcc.purdue.edu/cliwatch/watch.htm#curMonths
October 4, 2022 Below
Drought worsening!!
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
AUGUST 16, 2022 BELOW
Drought is worse in the WCB compared to 3 weeks earlier
July 26, 2022-update
U.S. Drought Monitor
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
Drought monitor previous years:
Not much help on the way!
7 Day Total precipitation below:
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.govcdx /qpf/p168i.gif?1530796126
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Re: Re: Re: drought in plains states effects shipping
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By metmike - Oct. 11, 2022, 2:17 p.m.
This is being caused by the La Nina!
The drought is being caused by the cool water anomalies in the tropical Pacific, the La Nina which has caused the 8 year global warming pause. The best thing to bust it would be global warming resuming with a planet warming El Nino!
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/anomaly/index.html
