Will moisture return for the spring planting season?

IARN – Yesterday, I saw a tweet from an Iowa farmer showing the dry riverbed in a portion of the Cedar River, and that is not a good sign to start the year. If we were in an El Niño weather pattern like we supposedly have been, we should be seeing moisture, based on historical data. We are not. What’s more disturbing is that a few meteorologists think we may already be switching back to the La Niña side of the equation. La Niña is the pattern that brings us cooler and drier weather. If this is the case, dry conditions could be returning before they ever totally disappeared.

Read more at Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network.

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