A profound statement I heard somewhere.

[OKdon]

RAIN MAKES GRAIN!

[marketeye]

OKdon,

How about heavy fog? Reporting from the Top Farmer Conference in West Lafayette, Indiana, today. I couldn't find the location of the Beck Ag Center, due to the heavy fog. The visibility was less than a half-mile, at 7am.

But, in general, the crops look pretty good. As one conference speaker has already said this morning, "It's the wettest drought I've seen."

Mike

[hardnox]

http://www.qtweather.com/showImage.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cpc.noaa.gov%2Fproducts%2FSoilmst_Monito...

Looks like the overnight rains and the 7 day shrink dry areas to just the far NW and NE fringes of the belt. And they do have some chances. Let's call the corn crop made, now we're just going to argue about how big. 3-4 bu either way from trend probably makes .50 difference.

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/p168i.gif?1467895422

8-14 remains warm but seems to open the gulf up some more. If that verifies and extends by very much it is going to get near impossible for bean bulls to hang on hoping for that promised dry August.

http://contours.hamweather.net/wxwnqtinfo12fti/contours/png/640x480/outlooks/us_814day_prcp.png?o=&u

[elcheapo]

Oh yes bumper crops here.... .02 rain last night.
How many bushels does figure out to be ?