10-23 FB Dry Soil

 Bryce Anderson has been DTN's ag meteorologist and fill-in market analyst since 1991. He combines his expertise in weather forecasting with a south-central Nebraska farm background to bring in-depth, focused commentary on the top weather developments affecting agriculture each day.In a recent conversation, he warned that soil in much of America is losing its water content.This is a real issue going forward and there is a fair portion of the corn belt, the northwestern half  both the Midwest where there are a lot of questions as to whether there’s going to be much improvement from here on and in fact we going to be 2013 planting season on the dry side as well because big droughts like this have a habit of repeating and that is the thing that has everybody so nervous right now.   Is there’s zero water content in the soil and that kind of thing? The soil moisture supplies are pretty much running short to very short for about 85% to 95% of the soil moisture or of the crop reporting districts in the state of Iowa, then across the rest of Nebraska and into Kansas as well. The concern that we have  and that I think just about all of agriculture has, is that we have gone into  a historically dryer part of the year from October all the way through the wintertime that there isn’t as much moisture that develops and accumulates.