Charts of the day: Short-term temperature/precipitation outlooks. Discussion: The large-scale pattern, governed by Madden Julian oscillation, indicates support for a much drier Australia climate into early May. The week ahead is dry except for heavy rain risk on the north/northeast coast possibly related to a tropical system. Week-2 Ahead Forecast valid May 10-16, 2021: Cool…
AgResource Farm Marketing Advice for Friday: 1/ No new producer advice. The US has 1.05 Bil Bu of old crop corn export sales open to ship by the end of the 2020/21 crop year in a little more than 4 months. This means that if the US sold no more corn overseas, it would have…
Does the Western US Dryness Progress East with the Calendar? The US drought monitor for late April encompasses more dry soils than at any other time in years. April was expected to be a month where some of the western dryness was reversed, but needed rainfall did not materialize. The expanding dry soils will be…
There are 2 distintive weather patterns across Brazil in May with one being tropical across the north and the other being determined by the positioning of a jet stream across N Argentina and Southern Brazil. The two distintive patterns produce differing rain patterns. Note that for Mato Grosso (blue) rain totals have been in fast…
The May WASDE is one of the most anticipated WASDE reports of the year as it provides the USDA’s initial forecast for the 2021/22 crop year. Ahead of the report, the production figure that the USDA will use is known. The USDA will use acreage from the March Perspective Plantings report, which is 87.6 Mil…
