When you think of Idaho, particularly over the past 5 or 6 years, we are reminded of high desert conditions, and that in turn has produced warm, dry weather. Warm, dry weather continues in much of the nation, particularly major summer crop growing areas. According to USDA meteorologist Brad Rippy, It been a big boon to early harvest efforts that have really picked up in the last couple of weeks, especially across the plains in the Midwest. Speaker1: Yet concerns arise pertaining to lack of moisture for fall planted crops like winter wheat and cover crops. Speaker2: So as we proceed through this winter wheat planting season, we're seeing increasing concerns that there won't be enough moisture for that crop to become established before it heads into dormancy in a few weeks. Northern production areas are especially at risk of poor establishment conditions, because they have a shorter window to get that crop established before colder air arrives. So we are eyeing places like South Dakota and Nebraska as some of our driest areas of the plains. That could have real concerns with getting the winter wheat and cover crops established in the next few weeks. Isn’t it amazing how Mother Nature works. In the Southeast 2 hurricanes have produced walls of water surging as high as 15 feet while out West we have, as we stated a minute ago, warm, dry weather prevails.