The tan areas of MN and Iowa have more or less had a 3 year period with way too much rain for one month in spring, followed by no rain at all for the rest of summer and fall.
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
You can see it on the trees now, they are starting to look bad. Too wet, THRN too dry.
Crops are in trouble on lighter ground, they are only hurt on better wet ground. The trouble is, spring was so very wet many of those acres never got planted.
West of Iowa is again turning dry in the map, but they tend to always be a little dry, and depend on irrigation for their good acres, so they are very dry, but that is kinda normal.
I've heard folks from Ohio say they were in the garden spot until mid August, and now even they have dried up, hurting the grain fill now.
Anyhow, in my part of southern Minnesota, this is the 3rd year in a row, perhaps 20-40 bu lower on corn, from the extreme dry midsummer to fall.
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