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Farmers could see a shift in weather

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Weather has been a challenge for farmers across the country this spring.  Farmers in parts of the western Corn Belt have been battling above normal temperatures and extremely dry conditions.

DTN meteorologist Bryce Anderson says that soon could change.  “As we look ahead to the next 10 days to two weeks, we’re going to see a switch in the jet stream tract,” he says.  “We’ll have a more west to north-westerly airflow.  That combination actually is a little more favorable for moisture to move into the Western Plains.  Particularly western Nebraska, western South Dakota, and western North Dakota.”

But, he says, little relief to the east.  “It still looks like it’s going to be drier in eastern South Dakota and eastern North Dakota,” he says.

As for the eastern Corn Belt, precipitation has been the challenge for farmers to even get in the field.

Anderson tells Brownfield, the rainfall may back off a little, but he doesn’t anticipate a switch to ideal planting conditions anytime soon.  “During the next couple of weeks, even if the airflow is out of the Northwest, we might see a little bit of a let up in the rainfall pattern, but the temperature trend is still going to be on the cool side,” he says.  “I think that’s still going to be a challenging scenario for the eastern Corn Belt producers.”

He says it looks like that part of the Corn Belt will continue to battle planting delays.

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