Global Crop Weather Highlights
USDA's Joint Ag Weather Facility has provided the following weekly weather/crop highlights:
EUROPE: Wet Weather Continues
Widespread rain and snow boost moisture reserves for winter crops across most of Europe, with a second week of cold weather easing wheat, barley, and rapeseed further into dormancy.
Dry weather on the Iberian Peninsula favors late summer crop harvesting, although rain returns by week’s end.
FSU: Winter Grain Areas Lack A Protective Snow Cover
Unseasonably mild weather provides favorable overwintering conditions for winter grains in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. However, most winter grain areas lack a protective snow cover, leaving crops exposed to potential extreme cold.
SOUTHEAST ASIA: Heavy Rainfall Causes Localized Flooding
Heavy rainfall in the Philippines and Malaysia causes localized flooding and slows fieldwork activities.
Showers benefit rice in Indonesia.
Dry weather in Vietnam aids the coffee harvest, nearing completion.
SOUTH ASIA: Drier
Dry weather allows flooding to subside and fieldwork to resume in southern India after last week’s tropical cyclone.
Unseasonably heavy showers in southern Pakistan hamper cotton harvesting.
MIDDLE EAST: Rain Benefits Iranian Winter Grains
Rain in Iran provides topsoil moisture for vegetative winter wheat and barley.
NORTHWEST AFRICA: Wet Weather Continues To Hamper Western Fieldwork
Additional rain in Morocco and Algeria slows winter grain planting but maintains favorable moisture for crop emergence and establishment.
Sunny weather in Tunisia promotes a rapid pace of fieldwork.
AUSTRALIA: Welcomed Drier Weather In The East
Drier weather in eastern Australia helps dry unharvested winter wheat soaked by recent heavy rains.
In southern Australia, mostly dry weather continues to facilitate rapid winter grain harvesting.
Showers in southern parts of the Western Australia wheat belt hamper local winter grain harvesting.
SOUTH AMERICA: Drier In Argentina; Southern Brazil Needs Rain
In Argentina, drier weather promotes planting of grains, oilseeds, and cotton, following last week’s rain. Winter wheat harvesting is advancing.
Rain is needed for soybean establishment in southern Brazil. Conditions remain overall favorable for summer grains, oilseeds, and cotton in Brazil’s central interior.
SOUTH AFRICA: Rain Benefits The Eastern Corn Belt; Planting Farther West
Rain increases moisture for summer crop establishment in central and eastern sections of the corn belt. Drier conditions promote planting farther west.
EUROPE: Wet Weather Continues
Widespread rain and snow boost moisture reserves for winter crops across most of Europe, with a second week of cold weather easing wheat, barley, and rapeseed further into dormancy.
Dry weather on the Iberian Peninsula favors late summer crop harvesting, although rain returns by week’s end.
FSU: Winter Grain Areas Lack A Protective Snow Cover
Unseasonably mild weather provides favorable overwintering conditions for winter grains in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. However, most winter grain areas lack a protective snow cover, leaving crops exposed to potential extreme cold.
SOUTHEAST ASIA: Heavy Rainfall Causes Localized Flooding
Heavy rainfall in the Philippines and Malaysia causes localized flooding and slows fieldwork activities.
Showers benefit rice in Indonesia.
Dry weather in Vietnam aids the coffee harvest, nearing completion.
SOUTH ASIA: Drier
Dry weather allows flooding to subside and fieldwork to resume in southern India after last week’s tropical cyclone.
Unseasonably heavy showers in southern Pakistan hamper cotton harvesting.
MIDDLE EAST: Rain Benefits Iranian Winter Grains
Rain in Iran provides topsoil moisture for vegetative winter wheat and barley.
NORTHWEST AFRICA: Wet Weather Continues To Hamper Western Fieldwork
Additional rain in Morocco and Algeria slows winter grain planting but maintains favorable moisture for crop emergence and establishment.
Sunny weather in Tunisia promotes a rapid pace of fieldwork.
AUSTRALIA: Welcomed Drier Weather In The East
Drier weather in eastern Australia helps dry unharvested winter wheat soaked by recent heavy rains.
In southern Australia, mostly dry weather continues to facilitate rapid winter grain harvesting.
Showers in southern parts of the Western Australia wheat belt hamper local winter grain harvesting.
SOUTH AMERICA: Drier In Argentina; Southern Brazil Needs Rain
In Argentina, drier weather promotes planting of grains, oilseeds, and cotton, following last week’s rain. Winter wheat harvesting is advancing.
Rain is needed for soybean establishment in southern Brazil. Conditions remain overall favorable for summer grains, oilseeds, and cotton in Brazil’s central interior.
SOUTH AFRICA: Rain Benefits The Eastern Corn Belt; Planting Farther West
Rain increases moisture for summer crop establishment in central and eastern sections of the corn belt. Drier conditions promote planting farther west.
