# 2022 Drought Offers Valuable Lessons | The More You Grow | Corteva Agriscience

> Corteva summarizes the 2022 drought, which spread east across the Corn Belt by late October, when 71% of corn area was in drought. Iowa averaged 202 bu/acre and Illinois 215 bu/acre, while Nebraska yields fell 13% and Kansas 17% from 2021.

- Date: 2023-01-23 · published 2023-01-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/13307-2022-drought-offers-valuable-lessons-the-more-you-grow-corteva-agriscience
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

The drought's late timing spared the eastern Corn Belt yields but hit the western Plains hard, reinforcing the tight-supply picture for corn and related feed ingredients.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2026-10-08 | [2026-27 Winter weather outlook \| The More You Grow \| Corteva Agriscience](https://feedsoft.ai/events/17048-2026-27-winter-weather-outlook-the-more-you-grow-corteva-agriscience.md) | -2.4% | -5.9% |
| CORN | 2025-02-20 | [2025 Corn Belt Planting Weather Outlook \| The More You Grow \| Corteva Agriscience](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13109-2025-corn-belt-planting-weather-outlook-the-more-you-grow-corteva-agriscience.md) | -5.1% | -2.4% |
| CORN | 2024-05-24 | [Summer Weather Outlook for Corn Belt \| The More You Grow \| Corteva Agriscience](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13184-summer-weather-outlook-for-corn-belt-the-more-you-grow-corteva-agriscience.md) | +0.6% | +1.3% |
| CORN | 2025-05-23 | [Uncertainty Defines Summer Weather Outlook \| The More You Grow \| Corteva Agriscience](https://feedsoft.ai/events/24589-uncertainty-defines-summer-weather-outlook-the-more-you-grow-corteva-agriscience.md) | -2.1% | -5.2% |
| CORN | 2023-06-15 | [Drought Concerns Grow as 57% of Corn, 51% of Soybeans in the U.S. Now Considered to Be in Drought - AgWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/35551-drought-concerns-grow-as-57-of-corn-51-of-soybeans-in-the-u-s-now-considered-to.md) | +4.8% | -4.3% |

## Sources

- corteva.com: https://www.corteva.com/us/Resources/crop-protection/soybeans/drought-offers-farm-lessons.html

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