Excerpts from Trade Winds Newsletter

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Sample Report:

El Nino Influence Waning

Our current El Nino event began during the late spring of 2009, arriving in time to have an influence on the 2009 growing season and making for a pretty easy 2009 summer forecast. If you have a summer when there is an El Nino present, you can almost "bank" on the following three things being seen:

- A lack of abnormal summer heat in the Midwest
- A lack of long periods of drier]than]normal summer weather in the Midwest
- Very big U.S. corn and soybean yields

We saw all three things occur in 2009. The summer of 2009 ranked among the 15 coolest ever (in a data set spanning the past 115 years) in all major corn producing states except Kansas and Ohio, topped off by a July that ranked as THE coolest in the past 115 years for Iowa eastward to Pennsylvania. Any below normal rainfall for the summer of 2009 was in far northeastern parts of the Corn Belt, with totals ranking among the top 25 or 30 ever (in that same 115 year record set) for the southwestern half of the region. Latest figures from the USDA project that national corn and soybean yields set new records in 2009, meaning that national corn yield records have been set in over 75 percent of all El Nino years since 1950, and national soybean yield records have been set in over 50 percent of those same years.

The forecast for the summer of 2010 would be equally as easy if the current El Nino were to stick around. However, it is becoming apparent that will NOT be the case...

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