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Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour sees great yield potential Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Agri News staff writer
Crop scouts on the 2009 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour see potential in the corn and soybean fields surveyed.
Scouts spread out from Ohio to Nebraska from Aug. 17 to Aug. 20 to gauge field conditions and yield potential of the corn and soybean crop.
They put the average crop tour corn yield in Iowa at 181 bushels per acre. Minnesota's average crop tour corn yield is 185.
It looks like an average soybean yield in Minnesota, said Chip Flory, editor of Pro Farmer. Flory said tour participants saw diseases in Minnesota soybean fields and those disease issues will keep yields right around 40 bushels per acre.
The crop tour reported pod counts of 984 in Minnesota and counts of 1,197 in Iowa. Flory wasn't too concerned about soybean height.
"Even short beans can be pretty loaded up with pods," he said.
There were good pod counts in Iowa, but Flory says USDA Aug. 1 projection of 52 bushels per acre may be a little optimistic.
On the corn side, Flory expects USDA to remove the badly hailed areas in Iowa from the harvested acres column. That removal will increase the state average corn yield because everything around the hailed out acres looks pretty darn good, he said.
Minnesota's crop may be running behind, but Flory said they've seen a crop in Minnesota at this growth stage before and it typically makes maturity before frost. A normal first frost may nip some of the crop, but a lot of yields will be made by that time, he said.
A lot depends on the weather between now and the end of September. If the state can score some heat, the crop will finish off just fine. |
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