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More cool, showery weather across the Corn Belt
May 23, 2017, 16:56 PM
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Across the Corn Belt, cool, showery weather is limiting fieldwork. Despite less-than-ideal spring weather, corn planting was within 10 percentage points of the respective 5-year averages on May 21 in all Midwestern States, ranging from 65% complete in Wisconsin to 94% complete in Minnesota.
On the Plains, cool weather prevails in the wake of a departing storm system. A few showers and thunderstorms linger, however, across the southern Plains. In parts of Nebraska where a freeze occurred on May 21, producers are monitoring winter wheat (61% headed on May 21) for any sign of injury.
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