Recent rains will influence the winter wheat crop. “All of Montana, all of North Dakota, maybe the northwestern corner of South Dakota is dormant and then after the next two weeks, we’re going to have dormancy all the way down probably through Nebraska as well,” said Joe Woznicki, Commodity Weather Group. “The rain events over the last several weeks and the upcoming rains have really done a number on improving the soil moisture situation here from the Plains all the way over into the Midwest. Woznicki doesn’t think North Dakota will experience much of a soil moisture recharge this fall.
