# How Crops May Be Changing Weather

> DTN's ag meteorologist reviews research from MIT suggesting that dense crop canopies from intensive agriculture have cooled summer temperatures and increased rainfall in the central US. Corn production has grown sevenfold since 1950 as the Corn Belt expanded.

- Date: 2019-02-01 · published 2019-02-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/60454-how-crops-may-be-changing-weather
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Evidence that crop canopy affects local weather highlights a feedback loop in Corn Belt yields, but it is a background climate-science point with no direct price impact.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2024-06-25 | [What does the weather hold for 2024 crops?](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29659-what-does-the-weather-hold-for-2024-crops.md) | -4.9% | -2.5% |
| CORN | 2025-06-25 | [Change to Weather Pattern Starting This Weekend](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13081-change-to-weather-pattern-starting-this-weekend.md) | +2.3% | -2.8% |
| CORN | 2017-12-14 | [South American crop and weather update - Morning Ag Clips](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67327-south-american-crop-and-weather-update-morning-ag-clips.md) | +2.3% | +2.4% |
| CORN | 2019-02-06 | [Brazil, Argentina Crop Weather Update](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60441-brazil-argentina-crop-weather-update.md) | +0.7% | -1.1% |
| CORN | 2017-03-13 | [Warm weather could be hallmark of 2017](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71917-warm-weather-could-be-hallmark-of-2017.md) | +2.4% | +0.9% |

## Sources

- dtnpf.com: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2019/02/01/crops-may-changing-weather

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