Alright, if this 43% number is going to get thrown around without making any analysis of what it took to happen, let's look at daily precipitation amounts in the core of the corn belt from that record week.  And I'm starting them a day before the actual USDA weekly progress report started, to show that virtually the entire region was starting the period with a drying trend.


 

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