Areas need excessive precipitation to restore water supply to normal.

Drought in the southwestern U.S. Plains continues to hang on, despite a short-term period of needed moisture at the end of 2014.

Relief from dryness in parts of southern Russia and Ukraine only came after crop threatening cold weather occurred.

A very large cold airmass pushed through North America in the middle part of November bringing arctic air into the U.S. Plains and Midwest while wheat was still being planted and emerging.

Well-timed rainfall in U.S. hard red winter wheat country, China, India and Australia has set the stage for a big year in potential wheat production.

Weather pattern changes in the United States during the last week of May promise to bring relief to months of moisture and temperature stress.

China’s weather so far this spring has been nearly ideal with timely rainfall and seasonably warm temperatures.

March will be going down as another colder-than-usual month across many key U.S. wheat production areas.

Brazil planted a huge soybean crop and had nearly ideal crop development conditions over the majority of the summer growing season.

Argentina already had lost some production potential earlier this growing season, and turning around those losses was not very likely because of the more recent weather adversity.