# Extreme weather swings challenge Midwest crops during unusual 2025 growing season

> Excessive rainfall in Illinois and Nebraska has caused disease and yield concerns across the Midwest in 2025. Heat and rain swings have affected crops in several Corn Belt states. The article describes conditions at farm show sites in Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois.

- Date: 2025-08-21 · published 2025-08-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/13065-extreme-weather-swings-challenge-midwest-crops-during-unusual-2025-growing
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Localized yield losses from wet weather and disease are a modest supply risk, but they do not change the broader outlook. Prices would react only if losses spread across the region.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: neutral
- CORN: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2024-01-30 | [La Niña Returns: Will It Impact 2024 US Growing Season? – Empire Weather Consulting](https://feedsoft.ai/events/32038-la-nina-returns-will-it-impact-2024-us-growing-season-empire-weather-consulting.md) | -2.5% | -6.5% |
| CORN | 2020-03-13 | [Extreme Weather Events Expose Vulnerability of Crops Globally \| 2020-03-13  \| SupplyChainBrain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54064-extreme-weather-events-expose-vulnerability-of-crops-globally-2020-03-13.md) | -4.2% | -1.9% |
| CORN | 2019-02-01 | [How Crops May Be Changing Weather](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60454-how-crops-may-be-changing-weather.md) | -0.3% | -0.8% |
| CORN | 2025-11-03 | [2025: Year of Extreme Weather, Corn Disease and Worry in Illinois \| Illinois Soybean Association](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13039-2025-year-of-extreme-weather-corn-disease-and-worry-in-illinois-illinois.md) | -0.7% | +2.3% |
| CORN | 2026-02-01 | [El Nino Expected to Influence US 2026 Growing Season](https://feedsoft.ai/events/20955-el-nino-expected-to-influence-us-2026-growing-season.md) | +0.2% | +1.9% |
| SOY | 2024-01-30 | [La Niña Returns: Will It Impact 2024 US Growing Season? – Empire Weather Consulting](https://feedsoft.ai/events/32038-la-nina-returns-will-it-impact-2024-us-growing-season-empire-weather-consulting.md) | +0.2% | -5.3% |
| SOY | 2025-11-21 | [Weather challenges impact 2025 soybean yields](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13038-weather-challenges-impact-2025-soybean-yields.md) | +1.4% | -6.5% |
| SOY | 2025-11-03 | [2025: Year of Extreme Weather, Corn Disease and Worry in Illinois \| Illinois Soybean Association](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13039-2025-year-of-extreme-weather-corn-disease-and-worry-in-illinois-illinois.md) | +0.2% | +2.6% |

## Sources

- farmprogress.com: https://www.farmprogress.com/crops/varied-weather-conditions-lead-to-show-crop-challenges

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