Weighing in for the "garden spot" Minnesota, I recently traveled a couple of hundred miles to the north and 60 miles to the south, 120 miles to the east and not very far to the west from around Mankato MN and my assessment is that there is a lot of variablity from field to field even in the paradise that we are supposedly in. Up towards St. Cloud, too wet in a lot of places, large drowned out areas, etc.
Other places, browning corn as the rain events played hit and miss.
My own crops may or may not end up as my best ever, but I just need to go a few miles to see browning corn (before yesterdays 1.5 to 3.0 inches , the "million dollar" rain even we have been waiting for since the fourth of July) and at a neighbors auction, guys on heavy ground were talking crop ins claims as the beans quit growing, and the corn was wilting. Granted, a timely rain can turn a brown field of Monsantos best drought corn back to green and produce good yields....been seeing that happen regularily over the last couple of decades, too.
Doesn't make a lot of difference to me one way or the other since I took advantage of the $4 corn bids, and $10 soybean bids to sell a normal years worth of production and can go to 2017 without additional sales now and still be eating regularily. But, if I was unsold, I would be tempted to wait until after harvest and let the market digest what actually comes off the fields.
