Makes me a little nervous- slight hints of the disasterous '91 campaign.
In that year, one of the major national yield contests showed July-Aug precip at all reporting SD plots at a minimum of 300% of any in IN. Although in fairness 300% of zippo doesn't have to be a lot.*
As I remind myself, barring extreme heat it only takes a couple timely rains to make a crop, so time will tell. And that sort of regional hiccup would move this market- not so in '91. And crop insurance is much better now. At this point with insurance and pricing this can't turn into a disaster unless I forget to turn in the paperwork.
But please remember to say thank you if we happen to be the ones who make a blood donation for the cause, and I'll do likewise should it flip the other way.
*That August I drove to Eastern SD and all the prairie potholes that had been blowing dust a couple years before were lakes. I personally believe that was the beginning of the favorable climatic shift for the far NW belt although I believe Elwynn has said it began around '86.
Egg and rotten tomato alert- that was a predicted effect of global warming.
That was a pretty tough decade for us weather-wise but fortunately things settled down and haven't really had a real bad crop since the late 90s, although some better than others.
