Insights and Stories on NOAA

Low water on Mississippi to persist despite improved drought outlook

Oct. 19, 2023 at 7:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Low water levels on the lower Mississippi River are likely to persist through at least January despite expected above-normal precipitation across the southern U.S. this winter, forecasters with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday. The severe to exceptional drought choking the lower Mississippi […]

Last year tied as world’s fifth-warmest on record, U.S. scientists say

Jan. 12, 2023 at 4:10 pm CST

By Kate Abnett

Shallow Mississippi River expected to persist as dry winter hits U.S. South

Oct. 20, 2022 at 6:46 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Last year was world’s sixth-warmest on record, U.S. scientists say

Jan. 13, 2022 at 3:58 pm CST

By Reuters

Another La Nina winter predicted

Oct. 22, 2021 at 3:36 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Most of Prairies already covered in snow

Nov. 23, 2020 at 4:25 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Most of the Canadian Prairies were already blanked in snow by late November, with the deepest snowpack in Alberta and Saskatchewan, according to data compiled by Environment Canada and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Aside from the Rocky Mountains and some areas around the Great […]

By MarketsFarm Team

USDA’s July WASDE has little effect on markets

Jul. 10, 2020 at 3:41 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — There were some notable changes in the carryovers for corn, soybeans and wheat in the July supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released Friday. However, the monthly world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) had very little effect on the markets, according to MarketsFarm […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Heavy North Dakota snows threaten wheat seeding

Mar. 25, 2019 at 7:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — A blanket of heavy, wet snow covering most of North Dakota, the top U.S. wheat state, threatens to delay planting of spring wheat in another blow to a U.S. farm belt already facing billions of dollars in damage from flooding. Farmers from Missouri to South Dakota […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grain shippers await El Nino dryness after unseasonable flood

Jan. 5, 2016 at 6:21 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– The clear Midwestern skies that El Nino cycles typically bring could be a boon to the U.S. heartland this spring, after recent record rain levels soaked the region, swamping farmland and disrupting grain export shipments on swollen rivers. Farm fields across the Midwest are saturated, according […]