Ag Outlook 10-19-2020

The hurricane season wraps up at the end of next month. Then we deal with winter. But the big story this year may not be blizzards crossing the country. Instead, it appears drought may be on everyone’s mind in rural America. A La Nina weather pattern is starting to develop as the waters of the equatorial Pacific cool. What this means for the U-S is likely a warmer, drier south and a cooler, wetter north. A NOAA spokesman points out several regions have experienced a growing drought since the middle of last winter. In the months ahead we’ll see it spread from the West to the Ohio Valley, down to Georgia and Florida and to the Northeast. Currently, excessive dryness is present on 47 percent of the lower 48. That’s the highest amount in seven years.