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South Africa Production Hurt By Warm, Dry Weather

Kansas City, March 14 (World Weather Inc.) – Many areas in central South Africa continued to dry down during the past week due to a lack of rain and warm to hot daytime temperatures. These areas were already drying down in February and continued dryness has likely hurt production potentials for many crops, but especially late season crops like peanuts, sorghum and unirrigated cotton. Some of the crops may have matured early as a result of the drying trend. Eastern South Africa still had enough moisture to support generally favorable development during the past week and production should be closer to normal. Eastern South Africa will see a good mix of rain and sunshine during the coming week that will maintain a favorable production outlook while areas to the west will remain stressed.

U.S. Crop Areas May Face A Few Threatening Freezes

Kansas City, March 14 (World Weather Inc.) – A recently identified 45-day weather cycle has raised the potential for colder weather in mid-April that could be a threat to some early developing winter wheat in the mid-south, southeastern states and possibly a few areas in the central and southern Plains. It is much too soon to give this potential much attention, but it is worth mentioning because of the more advanced condition of crops throughout the southern U.S. Wheat is greening in the central Plains and across the lower Midwest, but development is becoming more aggressive in the Delta and southeastern states as well as a portion of the southern Plains. A first surge of cold air is expected next week that may bring frost and freezes to the Tennessee River Basin.