Wet Spring Nearing Record Highs

It’s been a wet start to the 2017 year and USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey said that between January and April, it was the 5^th wettest on record, but if you include prospective totals from May, “It may well be like a top three all-time January to May period for U.S. wetness.”

The last time we saw rain and wet like this was in 1998, a great crop year.

The concern now is a rapid warm up in June which, as Rippey notes, could threaten crops.

“There is an increased risk of these crops that have been sewn into wet fields may not be as well established from a rooting standpoint and could be quite vulnerable to a period of hot, dry weather.”

That isn’t in the forecast, so Rippey believes that nothing should hold us back from a great crop year.