date:May 18, 2012
havent received any precipitation to speak of during the crucial flowering/grain-fill period -- the time when the crop really needs it.
The growing dryness is one of a pair of converging factors that are starting to whittle away some of the earlier lofty yield projections.
We have a confluence of two adverse conditions: dryness, and an early crop, Spiegel says. In normal years we could handle one of the two; this year, its just an unfortunate combination that will likely lead to far less pr