The weather outlook for the remainder of August is favorable for crop development and the fall harvest outlook isn’t too bad for the Northern Plains, either. “There’s going to be the kind of warmth needed to bring the crops along and offer pretty favorable row crop conditions and finish out wheat harvest,” said Bryce Anderson, senior agricultural meteorologist, DTN. Looking further ahead at the heart of fall harvest, Anderson anticipates better weather for the northern and western Corn Belt. “The pattern this coming fall season is showing a warmer, dry trend. I think that will be a better situation for getting harvest taken care of and I think farmers will benefit in different ways with better soil conditions to support machinery, not as much stranded crops and more.”
