# Crop Watch: Low prices, weather headline producers' concerns for 2025

> Crop Watchers flagged weather and dryness as their top concern heading into 2025 amid low prices. Drought covered 75% of the U.S. Midwest in late October, the largest share for that time of year since Drought Monitor records began in 2000.

- Date: 2024-11-05 · published 2024-11-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/13134-crop-watch-low-prices-weather-headline-producers-concerns-for-2025
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Dry soils and multi-year moisture deficits raise the risk of lower yields in 2025, which could support corn and soybean prices if the dryness persists.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bullish ▲
- CORN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2024-07-23 | [Crop Watch: Producers welcome cool weather but not the dry pattern  \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13166-crop-watch-producers-welcome-cool-weather-but-not-the-dry-pattern-reuters.md) | -0.3% | -3.4% |
| CORN | 2017-07-27 | [Crop futures higher Thurs. on dry weather \| The Western Producer](https://feedsoft.ai/events/70067-crop-futures-higher-thurs-on-dry-weather-the-western-producer.md) | -1.3% | -7.0% |
| CORN | 2024-12-27 | [Extreme weather to persist in 2025, raising concerns for agribusiness](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13526-extreme-weather-to-persist-in-2025-raising-concerns-for-agribusiness.md) | -0.5% | +5.6% |
| CORN | 2026-06-26 | [Corn: Dry weather forecasts drive up corn prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/18832-corn-dry-weather-forecasts-drive-up-corn-prices.md) | -1.3% | +5.3% |
| CORN | 2021-04-07 | [BRAZIL CORN MARKET WATCH: Dry weather forecast intensifies corn yield concerns \| S&P Global](https://feedsoft.ai/events/47443-brazil-corn-market-watch-dry-weather-forecast-intensifies-corn-yield-concerns-s.md) | +2.8% | +25.3% |
| SOY | 2017-07-27 | [Crop futures higher Thurs. on dry weather \| The Western Producer](https://feedsoft.ai/events/70067-crop-futures-higher-thurs-on-dry-weather-the-western-producer.md) | -2.3% | -5.4% |
| SOY | 2024-12-27 | [Extreme weather to persist in 2025, raising concerns for agribusiness](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13526-extreme-weather-to-persist-in-2025-raising-concerns-for-agribusiness.md) | -0.7% | +5.8% |
| SOY | 2016-04-22 | [Farming News - Oilseed Market Report: Prices rise on weather concerns](https://feedsoft.ai/events/10300-farming-news-oilseed-market-report-prices-rise-on-weather-concerns.md) | -0.1% | +5.2% |

## Sources

- reuters.com: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/crop-watch-low-prices-weather-headline-producers-concerns-2025-2024-11-05/

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