# A Late Planting Season Lesson

> A University of Illinois marketing class heard from T-Storm Weather that April 2018 could be one of the three coldest on record in the Corn Belt. Analysts say similar years since 1960 saw corn yields fall short in six of seven cases, and the detrended 2018 yield estimate is about 171 bushels per acre.

- Date: 2018-04-20 · published 2018-04-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65370-a-late-planting-season-lesson
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Historical analogs point to a likely yield shortfall, which supports corn and soybean prices if planting delays persist. Markets are trading on weather risk ahead of the crop outcome.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bullish ▲
- CORN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2022-09-30 | [Planting season underway in South America](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13700-planting-season-underway-in-south-america.md) | +1.0% | +3.8% |
| CORN | 2020-04-15 | [Lessons from 2019 shape preparations for another wet planting season](https://feedsoft.ai/events/53486-lessons-from-2019-shape-preparations-for-another-wet-planting-season.md) | -3.9% | -2.0% |
| CORN | 2018-04-24 | [Latest Planting in Four Years](https://feedsoft.ai/events/65371-latest-planting-in-four-years.md) | +2.2% | +5.1% |
| CORN | 2019-12-10 | [Brazil's Planting Season Ends Dry, U.S. Corn Harvest Ending Cold](https://feedsoft.ai/events/55418-brazil-s-planting-season-ends-dry-u-s-corn-harvest-ending-cold.md) | +4.3% | +3.9% |
| CORN | 2020-02-18 | [Spring Corn Belt Flooding Concerns Persist Before Planting Season](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54449-spring-corn-belt-flooding-concerns-persist-before-planting-season.md) | -1.7% | -3.5% |
| SOY | 2022-09-30 | [Planting season underway in South America](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13700-planting-season-underway-in-south-america.md) | -3.7% | -2.0% |
| SOY | 2018-04-24 | [Latest Planting in Four Years](https://feedsoft.ai/events/65371-latest-planting-in-four-years.md) | +1.7% | +0.4% |
| SOY | 2017-09-14 | [Brazil's New Soybean Planting Season Delayed by Dryness](https://feedsoft.ai/events/68795-brazil-s-new-soybean-planting-season-delayed-by-dryness.md) | +1.8% | +1.3% |

## Sources

- narrowrow.com: http://www.narrowrow.com/2018/04/a-late-planting-season-lesson.html

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