Up to five of the 11 Crop Watch locations received no rain over the last week, and only one tallied 1 inch or more.
Each week the Crop Watch producers assign condition scores to their fields on a 1-to-5 scale.
Crop Watch conditions do not incorporate yield assumptions, which will come later in the season.
Eight of the 11 Crop Watch corn fields carry a condition score of 4 or better as do seven of the soybean fields, though there are no perfect 5s.
Photos of the Crop Watch fields can be tracked on my Twitter feed using handle @kannbwx.
Persons:
Karen Braun, Robert Birsel
Organizations:
Crop, U.S . Department of Agriculture’s, North Dakota, Nebraska and, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
FONTERUTOLI, Italy, United States, South Dakota , Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, Nebraska, Indiana, Nebraska and South Dakota, Ohio, Minnesota, Kansas, Kingsbury , South Dakota, Freeborn , Minnesota, Burt , Nebraska, Rice , Kansas, Audubon , Iowa, Cedar , Iowa, Warren , Illinois, Crawford , Illinois, Tippecanoe , Indiana, Fairfield , Ohio, The North Dakota, Griggs County