Little Rain for Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri

While some states will benefit from some cooler weather and rain, major corn and soybean producers Iowa and Illinois will get little relief from drought conditions, and neither will Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.

Missouri's corn crop is already almost a total loss, and Indiana's isn't much better. Whether rains come in those two states in regard to corn won't have any positive impact on the yields.

Rains are predicted to move into the overall Midwest next week, but projections are only for up to one half inch at most for most areas.

The majority of Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri will probably only get at most a tenth of an inch or rain, while the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Illinois and Ohio will get from .5 to an inch of rain. Combined it generates the .5 inches of rain mentioned earlier for the Midwest.

Some parts of Iowa and northern Missouri could also get on average about .5 inches of rain over the weekend. As usual, rain will be scattered and unpredictable as to how much it will help drought-stricken regions. But overall it doesn't look good.

In other words, the states with the majority of the corn will continue to suffer drought conditions, putting even more downward pressure on corn yields.

The conservative reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture should come in with another drop in projected corn yields on Monday, and possibly more for soybeans; although some have benefited from the recent rains in the Midwest.

Most grain experts have about 20 bushels per acre less in yields projections for corn than the USDA has at this time. That should come closer to one another on Monday, depending upon whether private analysts even further downgrade expected corn yields.

In the middle of next week the Commodity Weather Group (CWG) says temperatures in the mid 90s to 100s will probably return Wednesday and into Thursday at least.

According to the CWG, other crops starting to feel the impact of the drought, besides soybeans, are rice and cotton.