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Weather is one of the top most influential features in daily commodity futures trading. It is also the most important consideration for food company's making purchasing commitments and farmers to determine hedge positions and planting decisions. World Weather, Inc. has 73 years of combined agricultural world weather forecasting experience and its staff has been supporting the commodity futures trade since 1979. This daily podcast will provide insight to the day's most important weather issues influencing world market trading. It is designed to discuss all of the most important weather-related issues of the day and will help explain how those weather issues will influence production and help the listener make better business decisions whether in the commodity futures market or out of it.
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Wednesday May 28, 2025
World Weather PowerPoint For Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS VIDEO
- US and Canada soil moisture comparisons between Friday and Tuesday
- Relief in Safrinha corn production areas resulting from rain overnight and that which is coming
- China's ongoing dryness
- Russia's Southern Region will continue to dry down
- Argentina will see welcome drying
- U.S. crop outlook still favorable
- Canada's Central Prairies to remain dry enough to raise worry over crop conditions
- Western Australia weather should begin improving soon

Wednesday May 28, 2025
Morning Market Weather for Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 28, 2025
- Little change overnight
- Eastern parts of China’s Yellow River Basin will continue to experience declining crop and field conditions due to ongoing dryness
- No relief is expected for at least ten days except in a few western areas where a few showers will occur briefly late this week
- Russia’s Southern Region and western Kazakhstan will experience net drying for much of the coming week to ten days, although some rain may impact a few western crop areas in Russia’s Southern region next week
- Eastern Ukraine will get some rain this weekend next week
- Europe’s North Sea region will continue to get periodic rainfall to improve crops after a lengthy period of dryness
- France does not get as much rain as often as other northern Europe crop areas which may lead to a moisture problem later in June
- Western Australia will see showers slowly increasing in frequency and significance as time moves along from late this week through next week
- New South Wales, Australia soil moisture has improved enough to favorably support winter crop planting and emergence
- South Australia will remain driest in the nation for the next ten days
- Rain in Safrinha corn areas from western Mato Grosso through Mato Grosso do Sul to Paraguay, Parana and Sao Paulo is likely today with another chance for rain Monday into Tuesday
- Eastern Argentina will see some welcome drying over the next week to ten days improving soil conditions for winter crop planting
- Some rain has been removed from India’s forecast this week relative to that of recent past days and that decrease was needed
- The heart of Saskatchewan, Canada will be dry for the next ten days with warm temperatures through the weekend
- Manitoba, Canada and the northern U.S. Plains will experience a new wave of stormy weather early next week bolstering soil moisture
- Western and northern Alberta will get rain in late in the weekend into next week as well favoring crops
- Some of the drought-stricken Peace River Region of western Canada will get some much needed rain in the coming week
- West Texas rainfall will increase in this coming week
- More rain in U.S. hard red winter wheat areas in the coming week will raise grain quality and wet weather disease issues for Kansas and Oklahoma
- S. Midwest, Delta and southeastern states will receive more rain in the next ten days maintaining moisture abundance
- The Delta will stay too wet
- Eastern parts of China’s Yellow River Basin will continue to experience declining crop and field conditions due to ongoing dryness

Tuesday May 27, 2025
Mid-day Audio Weather Update For Tuesday, May 27
Tuesday May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS AUDIO RECORDING
- No theme changes around the world at mid-day
- France gets rain next week
- China's Yellow River Basin remains dry biased for at least ten days
- Australia rain potentials slowly improving
- Safrinha crop areas in Brazil will get some needed rain tonight, Wednesday
- Argenting will see drier weather after today
- U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will be drier after this week

Tuesday May 27, 2025
World Weather PowerPoint For Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS VIDEO
- High pressure ridge building in North America to bring warmer temperatures
- Week one rainfall will continue abundant in much of the U.S. crop areas
- Week two rainfall will favor the northern Midwest and Canada's Prairies
- Northern Europe is trending wetter
- France will not do well with rain
- China's second week wetter forecast is gone; drying likely next ten days
- Australia looks wetter
- Brazil Safrinha crops to get timely rainfall and moisture profile is mostly good for this time of year
- Argentina fieldwork will be slow until rain ends Wednesday
- Aggressive wheat planting expected in Argentina

Tuesday May 27, 2025
Morning Market Weather Update For Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 27, 2025
- China’s second week rain event (advertised Friday) was removed from the outlook during the weekend leaving east-central China in a drought with temperatures near to above normal
- Australia’s forecast for rain is improved for the next couple of weeks, although it will take much of that time for all areas to get rain
- Some shower activity occurred in each of the wheat, barley and canola production areas during the long U.S. holiday weekend, although much of the moisture was light
- Improving conditions for the planting of winter crops will evolve during the first week of June
- Russia’s Southern Region will experience net drying in this first week of the outlook and some drying already occurred in recent days along with some warmer temperatures
- Partial relief is possible as showers evolve next week along with some cooling
- Most of Russia’s New Lands region experienced frost and freezes during the long U.S. holiday weekend
- Russia’s New Lands will get rain periodically in the next ten days to two weeks supporting improved soil moisture for long term crop development potential
- Europe’s North Sea region already received some rain during the weekend and more will fall this week
- France will remain dry biased in the coming week, but many areas in the nation should get rain next week, though pockets of dryness may remain
- Brazil’s center west and southern parts of center south Safrinha crop areas will get rain during mid-week this week resulting in a better outlook for late planted crops
- Argentina weather will trend drier after today allowing for some aggressive winter wheat and barley planting to take place as well as summer crop harvesting
- Rain in the east Monday and today will maintain wet fields and that could delay the start of fieldwork for a little while until drying firms the topsoil
- Fieldwork in the central and west should evolve more readily because of drier soil
- Hotter weather is expected in western North America for a little while this week
- North America cooling is expected briefly again next week
- Canada’s central and eastern Prairies will be drier biased this week while western and some northern Alberta crop areas get rain
- Next week’s weather in Canada’s Prairies will favor rain in the southeast half of the region while some central areas continue drier biased
- U.S. crop areas will see less rain and warmer temperatures later this week and into the weekend, although additional showers and thunderstorms are expected to maintain moisture abundance in most key crop areas
- Too much rain may have fallen during the long U.S. holiday weekend from southern Kansas and Oklahoma to the middle and lower Delta where 1.00 to 3.00 inches and local totals to 5.50 inches occurred in general

Monday May 26, 2025
Monday Evening Market Weather Update for May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
CHANGES SINCE FRIDAY
- France is advertised to get rain next week
- Germany will get drought relief beginning in the second half of this week into early next week
- Western Russia, Ukraine temperatures turned warmer than usual during the weekend accelerating a drying trend already under way in Russia’s Southern region
- Drying in Russia’s Southern region has accelerated to the north into the Ural Mountains region and Volga River Basin recently and it will continue through mid-week
- Rain in Russia’s Southern region may not resume for at least ten days while cooling and showers occur to the north and west later this week and during the weekend
- Weekend frost and freezes occurred in the Russia New Lands without permanent crop damage
- East-central China (including the Yellow River Basin) continues to dry out and another ten days of the same is expected (week 2 rain advertised Friday was removed)
- Safrinha corn and cotton areas of center west and interior southern Brazil will get some needed rain Tuesday and Wednesday
- S. holiday weekend rainfall was abundant to excessive in portions of the southern Plains and middle and lower Delta with more rain into mid-week
- Canada’s Prairies will experience net drying this week along with above normal temperatures further stressing crops in the dry areas
- Some increase in precipitation may impact Alberta and southeastern parts of the Canada Prairies this weekend and next week as cooling begins
- Western Australia will get some periodic rain beginning late this week and continuing into next week
- Mexico’s monsoon is expected to strengthen in the south this week and spread some showers to central areas next week

Friday May 23, 2025
World Weather PowerPoint For Friday, May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
Highlights in this video
- Blocking weather pattern to limit rain in Canada's Prairies and Northern U.S. Plains
- Excessive rain event coming to U.S. Delta and southeastern U.S. Plains
- Additional delays to fieldwork in the Delta will extend through the first week fo June
- hard red winter wheat areas may experience some wet weather disease and grain quality declines
- Cool front to bring rain to late planting Safrinha Corn areas in Brazil
- France will miss northern Europe's rain
- China is done with rain for a week and then may receive some more
- Australia's outlook still leans toward improved rainfall for week two of the outlook
- Russia's Southern Region will trend drier along with eastern Ukraine during the next ten days
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Friday May 23, 2025
Morning Market Weather For Friday, May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 23, 2025
- Center west and center south Brazil still have a good chance of getting some timely rain next week as colder airmass pushes into Brazil from Argentina. The rain will be light to locally moderate, but it occurs while late-planted Safrinha corn is reproducing or about to and that should translate into some temporary crop improvement
- Argentina’s rain in the next ten days will be concentrated on the central and east and beneficial for wheat and barley planting and establishment
- China’s two-day rain event this week in the drought stricken Yellow River Basin was beneficial for a few areas, though most of the region failed to see serious changes to soil or crop conditions
- East-central China will now be dry biased for another full week
- Some computer forecast models are still promoting another chance for rain in the first week of June
- Australia rain potentials will improve in some wheat, barley and canola areas during the first week of June; until then, showers will be sporadic and light benefiting only a few winter crop areas
- Russia’s Southern Region, eastern Ukraine and western Kazakhstan are unlikely to get much rain for the next week to ten days and temperatures will trend warmer leading to some net drying conditions
- West weather in eastern Europe will benefit many crops from the Balkan region through western Ukraine to northwestern Russia in the coming week
- Russia’s New Lands will also get some occasional rain in the coming week
- Rain is likely in the dry areas of the North Sea region (including much of Germany) during the coming week
- Relief from prolonged dryness is expected, though additional rain will be needed
- Many areas if France may be missed by the coming week of showers and thunderstorms leaving parts of the nation in need of significant rain
- Some crop stress is expected as temperatures trend warmer
- S. holiday weekend weather will be wet from western South Dakota and eastern Montana to the Delta and southeastern Great Plains
- Some heavy rain and flooding are likely in southern Missouri, the Delta, southeastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma and north-central and northeastern Texas
- Drying is likely in the heart of the Midwest
- Some rain will reach into parts of the Midwest next week and into the following weekend
- West Texas, South Texas and the Texas Coastal Bend will get some rain next week as well with sporadic showers possible in some areas this weekend
- S. southeastern states may get some relief to recent dryness next week
- Canada’s central and eastern Prairies will be dry biased during the next ten days with temperatures trending warmer leading to some soil moisture depletion
- Mexico rain will be greatest in the south and east parts of the nation leaving drought in the northwest
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Thursday May 22, 2025
Mid-Day Market Weather Update for Thursday, May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
- No serious changes were noted in the U.S. forecast at mid-day on the GFS model run versus the previous model run
- South America's threat of frost and freezes remains a minimal issue for next week as World Weather suggested earlier today
- No changes ni Australia weather
- China was drier over the next ten days on the latest GFS model run with no further relief from dryness in east-central crop areas for the next ten days
- Europe's wetter bias for next week remained in place on the latest model run

Thursday May 22, 2025
World Weather PowerPoint For Thursday, May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS VIDEO
- Cool conditions in North America
- Excessive rain due into the U.S. Delta and neighboring areas causing new flooding
- Unusual nor'easter to impact northeastern U.S. and southeastern Quebec, Canada
- Blocking weather pattern remains over central Canada
- Relief still expected in northern Europe, but France may need to be closely monitored for continued dryness
- China's relief from dryness will be limited until early June
- Australia's dryness is not likely to change much except in New South Wales for the next ten days
- India will stay wet
- Market chatter about frost and freezes in southern Brazil next week are out of line relative to reality and no harm will come to any Brazil crops because of cooling
- The Cool off in brazil could induce a short term bout of rain for Safrinha crop areas