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Meteorologist expects more moisture in September
An ag meteorologist expects some September relief from the extremely dry August. Greg Soulje tells Brownfield some farmers might be anxious to get into the fields for harvesting, but the majority would like to finish their crops with a little more rain. “Some of the drought-ridden areas in the western corn belt, I-E Iowa, some increasing dryness issues now to the northern and central corn belt, and of course, I’m going parts of Michigan and Ohio, yeah, your wish will get granted.”
Soulje says the needed rains might have a drawback. “It may come at a price with some lower and slower late-season crop growth and development, but there are indications that we’ll move into the first half of September, if not a good part of the month of September, if not a good part of the fall season on an increasingly wet, active, and probably cooler to colder weather pattern than we’d like to see.”
Soulje says crops received their critical growing degree days earlier this year, which should help with yields during the dry-then-cool and wet stretch.
