Recent heavy rains in parts of the upper Midwest will have little, if any, impact on US corn and Soyabean forecasts when the government issues its latest crop production report in September, a US Agriculture Department meteorologist said on Wednesday.
In an interview, USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey told Reuters the mid-August rains hit late in the season, when the corn and soyabean crops were maturing, greatly reducing the chance that disease would hit the crop and cut yields.
"The overall impact should be relatively minimal assuming we go back to a more normal weather pattern, which appears to be happening," said Rippey. He said corn and soyabeans look good except for isolated problems. "I don't expect a whole lot of change because of the August weather."
USDA said on Monday in its weekly crop progress report that 96 percent of the soyabean crop was setting pods, with 6 percent dropping leaves. It also estimated that 63 percent of US corn crop had dented.