Across the Corn Belt, warm, dry weather favors fieldwork, including corn and soybean planting, as well as winter wheat development and summer crop emergence and growth. However, smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to drift southward, mainly in the upper levels of the atmosphere, contributing to hazy, filtered sunshine.
On the Plains, widely scattered showers are occurring from Kansas southward. Recent and ongoing showers across the central and southern Plains have generally arrived too late for winter wheat but are locally benefiting rangeland, pastures, and summer crops.
