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I have been periodically checking in on the US Drought Monitor for several years. It is interesting to me. I am somewhat close to the AG industry and like to check in on the Western States.

This is the least amount of drought I have seen nationwide by a pretty big margin. Certainly plenty soggy where I am at.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

Best looking map we have had in awhile.

Very green now, hope we get some timely rain through the summer.

the ag industry is very important.

it's smokin' hot around here in ne georgia.

also important is ground water levels.

Rut-roh! Commodity prices about to go in the crapper!

never looked at that map . but the upper midwest and eastern cornbelt is a fuggin absolute disaster......too wet to plant anything , and I believe the magnitude of this event has yet to sink in

even west river SD has been too wet to plant much...unheard of

you might as well write off corn and beans for SD and west Mn this year

more rain on the way and the growing season is too short in these parts and it is too late to get anything like a normal crop this year

Chit. 2000 farms and their roads washed out by floods in the midwest and now the farmers are fixing to be bankrupted. If you like corn and beans you better stock up.

These places wont be farmed for a couple of years.

China and Mexico will import plenty. 😜

Utah......drought ?

what's that ?

Lived here for 40 years.....ain't never seen so much water

https://www.ksl.com/?nid=149&sid=134181

You mean soybeans...

There are stockpiles left from previous crops, and many other places also grow corn and beans.
There's no reason for panic.

Where we live we have not had but a 1/4 in.all year.

It seems to split north and south every time.

makes one kind of glad because of all the hail they got in Midland a few weeks ago.

Still dry.

No doubt corn and soybean planting is at best behind schedule and at worst a total disaster. Dakotas, Nebraska, Parts of Il. If it gets too late most will switch from corn to beans, but then you have surplus and trade problems on the beans. Hell I don't know. Sad part is it could rain non stop until June 15 and then not rain again until August 15th. Seems we get stuck in weather patterns now more than in the past. Maybe it has always been this way and my memory sucks.

There's several farmers in our area that are giving up on planting anything this year due to excessive rains/water and frigid temps.. Can't even get in the fields w/o getting buried in mud.. This year reminds me of '72 so far... Cold, rainy, wet - all year long..

Corn planting here is mostly over, and farmers got it done fighting the wet spring we had. They're planting the full season beans now, although most of the beans here are double-cropped after wheat. Crops are looking pretty good overall, considering that most farmers have been fighting wet weather since last fall. I got my hay cut without betting it wet, and garden is looking very good, so I'm happy for the moment.

I'am beginning to wonder if the rain will stop long enough to get hay cut, dried and baled.

Way too wet here . over a foot of rain last 3 days .on already fully saturated ground. Major flooding no end in sight

I was awful tired of being colored, on that map. Glad to see the improvement.

Very wet spring here in central Wyoming. Moderate drought in the Wind River Mountains? Dang I'm gonna' hate to see what it takes to get us over that. Snow pack last I checked was at 120%.

Went back home to visit family in Indiana and Missouri a couple weeks ago. Dang sure is wet. Drove through the little town of Strong City Kansas on the way back to Wyoming, and they were cleaning up from a flood.