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Severe weather expected on the Great Plains
May 16, 2017, 15:29 PM
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Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms are overspreading the northern tier of the region, from Minnesota to Michigan, slowing a previously torrid planting pace. In Minnesota, nearly half (49%) of the intended corn acreage was planted during the week ending May 14, along with 45% of the sugarbeets and 43% of the soybeans. Meanwhile, previously stalled fieldwork is gradually accelerating in the southern Corn Belt.
On the Plains, a disturbance crossing the northern half of the region is producing widespread showers and slowing a previously rapid planting pace.
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