Growth has been good, with the ideal growing conditions. Soybeans are flowering and starting to fill early pods. Wheat harvest will start in the coming week. Spring cereals are completing filling and starting to dry down. Forage operations for second cut continue, second growth has been good on most fields.
Pastures continue to show the stress from the late spring.
Hot and dry with daytime temperature in the high 20oC and nighttime low's in the 10 to 15oC range. No precipitation was recorded for the week leaving most areas quite dry. Soybeans continue to flower and pod. Both crops were stressed early-on by a combination of late planting, soil compaction, lack of moisture and excesses of moisture. Most of the corn will need average to slightly above growing conditions to reach maturity.