Estimating corn yields

I was on our weekly agron­omy con­fer­ence call Mon­day morn­ing and Jim Noel, NOAA mete­o­rol­o­gist, told us that weather fore­cast­ers are call­ing for a shift in the weather from wet­ter than aver­age like we had this spring and early sum­mer, to drier than aver­age. That after­noon we got 1.5 inches of rain in Ostran­der. It was a lit­tle funny at the time, but as I drive around the county and the state there is no doubt that a drier weather pat­tern did kick in around late June. Noel says that fore­cast­ers are pre­dict­ing that this type of weather pat­tern will likely con­tinue into August as well. Fore­cast­ers are not pre­dict­ing a drought but are say­ing that the rain­fall will aver­age at or below normal.