# Drought only re-emphasizes Mother Nature’s unpredictability

> Drought has centered over parts of the southeastern US, with a Mississippi county rated in Exceptional Drought, and three months without rain. Meteorologists expect it to persist through November and possibly into January if La Niña develops.

- Date: 2016-11-14 · published 2016-11-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/73765-drought-only-re-emphasizes-mother-nature-s-unpredictability
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Prolonged Southeast drought threatens late-season crops and forage availability, supporting feed grain demand and prices in affected regions.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bullish ▲
- CORN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2020-11-10 | [U.S. corn crop’s growing sensitivity to drought revealed - Future Farming](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49988-u-s-corn-crop-s-growing-sensitivity-to-drought-revealed-future-farming.md) | +9.7% | +8.7% |
| CORN | 2025-03-26 | [Expert predicts 60% chance of Midwest drought in 2025](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13106-expert-predicts-60-chance-of-midwest-drought-in-2025.md) | -0.0% | +3.6% |
| CORN | 2021-04-15 | [2021: A Drought Year Like No Other! - AgWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/47436-2021-a-drought-year-like-no-other-agweb.md) | +2.3% | +21.6% |
| CORN | 2020-10-26 | [U.S. corn crop increasingly sensitive to drought - Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50494-u-s-corn-crop-increasingly-sensitive-to-drought-stanford-doerr-school-of.md) | +0.3% | +10.2% |
| CORN | 2019-09-30 | [Premature Plant Death Due to Drought Stress: Insult to Injury (Purdue University)](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56905-premature-plant-death-due-to-drought-stress-insult-to-injury-purdue-university.md) | -0.9% | +1.1% |
| SOY | 2023-02-14 | [Soybean Meal Futures Rise On Argentina Drought](https://feedsoft.ai/events/37454-soybean-meal-futures-rise-on-argentina-drought.md) | +0.4% | -2.8% |
| SOY | 2025-03-26 | [Expert predicts 60% chance of Midwest drought in 2025](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13106-expert-predicts-60-chance-of-midwest-drought-in-2025.md) | +3.2% | +3.8% |
| SOY | 2026-05-01 | [Flash droughts reduce national-scale crop yields in the United States](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13000-flash-droughts-reduce-national-scale-crop-yields-in-the-united-states.md) | -0.4% | +0.4% |

## Sources

- farmprogress.com: https://www.farmprogress.com/crops/drought-only-re-emphasizes-mother-nature-s-unpredictability

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