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Excess rain in southeast Missouri delayed planting by 30 to 45 days, while heat and lack of rain hurt southwest Missouri. Nonirrigated corn at Lamar did not reach 100 bushels per acre in trials.
Regional yield losses in Missouri are small relative to the national crop and have limited effect on prices. They do add to the mix of weather-driven shortfalls in the central U.S.
After 445 past neutral weather events, CORN moved a median +0.1% over 5 sessions (52% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.6%), and +0.7% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.