Episode 258: Harvest Weather Outlook 2025

The ideal 2025 growing season is giving way to the dog days of August, as farmers finally start to see the hot and dry conditions that were expected months ago. With harvest in sight, the rise in temperatures and lack of precipitation is putting a damper on a brilliant season, but also promises to ease harvest, even as it hints at a longer range forecast that’ll impact farmers in the U.S. and around the world.

To help us peek into the weather forecasts for the coming months, we’re joined once again by DTN’s Ag Meteorologist John Baranick. John will bring us up-to-date with the weather picture in each of the key regions of the country, and help us understand what we know about both harvest conditions and the overall situation going into the winter months. We’ll also look back on the summer that’s been, and hear John’s insight on whether the crop in the field is likely to hit the stratospheric numbers put forward by USDA, and what impact late season conditions and disease have on that crop. 

Then we’ll expand our focus beyond the corn belt and plains to hear the latest on weather conditions around the world, and what wild cards we’ll be keeping an eye out for that might yet disrupt global supplies and markets.