date:May 10, 2013
lopment, persuading some farmers to hold off planting for the time being.
At the moment, the grain markets are more focused on it beingtoo wet to plant in parts of the Corn Belt and the Northern Plains than on prospects of expanding drought conditions in the months ahead, Scherr wrote.
There normally is at least some rainfall during drought periods, Scherr wrote. The timing and distribution of that moisture during the growth cycle can have a great bearing on yields for all crops.
Predicting c