Across the Corn Belt, cool, damp conditions continue to limit summer crop development and are maintaining concerns with respect to the quality of soft red winter wheat. On June 16, more than one-fifth of the wheat was rated very poor to poor in Ohio (31%), Missouri (23%), Illinois (22%), and Michigan (21%). Currently, some of the heaviest rain is falling in the middle Mississippi Valley and environs. On the Plains, scattered to widespread showers are slowing fieldwork but maintaining mostly adequate to abundant moisture reserves for summer crops.
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