Your Pro Farmer newsletter (May 21, 2022) is now available

Weather during the week ended May 15 was the best of the spring so far, leading to big jumps in corn and soybean planting, though both remained well behind average. There wasn’t as much of an advance in spring wheat planting due to continued rains in the Northern Plains. We look at how much of each crop was left to plant as of mid-May. While much of the focus is on the planting paces, summer weather will largely determine yields. The National Weather Service extended forecast for June through August calls for above-normal temps for all U.S. growing areas, with below-normal precip likely across the western Corn Belt and Southern Plains. Drought continues to hamper the U.S. winter wheat crop, with results of the Wheat Quality Council’s annual HRW crop tour through Kansas confirming sharply reduced yield prospects in the state. We cover all of these items and much more in this week’s newsletter, which you can download here.