The director of USDA’s Midwest Climate Hub, Dennis Todey, says it’s too early to make any predictions on the potential for an early freeze this fall.
“We’re too early to assess well when we can be expecting frost/freeze conditions for the fall,” Todey says. “But the situation we are watching closely and I’m most concerned about is, can we get enough degree days behind—especially the corn crop—to get it to maturity.”
Todey tells Brownfield the August outlook is for cooler-than-average temperatures across much of the Northern Plains and Midwest.
Continue reading Too early to discuss first freeze timing at Brownfield Ag News.
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