The August crop report next Wednesday. Some private forecasters slowly taking the top of national corn yield. July’s extended hot dry weather has been replaced with still hot weather, but a wetter pattern still though dry in part to the Western Belt and Northern Belts. Private forecasters appear reluctant to reduce final yield much, but several early releases have taken one to two bushels off the national corn yield. August Crop Reports So FarAudio Reporting by Mark Oppold for Southeast AgNet.