date:May 21, 2012
ECAST
Midwest weather forecasts, targeting the next two weeks, call for below-normal precipitation and warmer-than-normal temperatures. This signals that all of this year's fast corn planting could be second-guessed. As of Sunday, U.S. farmers had planted 87% of the corn, with the major producing states of Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska and Illinois all over the 90% level.
Percival Hanson, a recently retired west-central Illinois agronomist, says 25% of the area corn is knee-high, and that might no