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Pro Farmer will be taking the Crop Tour data and otherinformation into account when it publishes national andstate-level estimates for corn and soybean yields on Friday at1:30 pm CDT. It is important to remember that the Crop Tour yield numbersare best compared against those from previous tours, becausethere are sampling biases in certain states based on the partsof the state that the routes cover. Maturity was only an issue in parts of South Dakotaand the Eastern Corn Belt. The majority of the fields randomly sampledon the Crop Tour were pollinated and therefore eligible to bemeasured. Many market participants could not believe thenational yields could be as high as USDA predicted based on howmuch of the crops were planted in June.Ĭorn across the Midwest was expectedly much less mature thana year ago, when the crop was far ahead of normal after a warmstart to the season. This year,scouts took yield measurements in 1,473 corn fields and 1,461soybean fields across the seven states.Ĭrop Tour participants were eager to see what the fieldswould look like after the record-late planting season for cornand soybeans. The Crop Tour is a long-running annual event held in thethird week of August every year and it is hosted in partnershipwith Farm Journal, the parent company of Pro Farmer.
The eastern leg went throughOhio, Indiana, Illinois, and eastern and central Iowa. I was a scout on the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour throughthe main corn and soybean producing areas of the United States.I was on the western leg of the tour, through South Dakota,Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. The individual state outlooks were corroborated byscouts after the four-day tour, except for in South Dakota. On the other hand, USDA’s corn yield peg of 169.5 bushelsper acre might be closer to reality, depending on how the cropfinishes. This week’s field samples might suggest somedownside to USDA’s soybean yield forecast of 48.5 bushels peracre.
Department of Agriculture's state yieldforecasts are down much less on the year than those pod countsin certain states. Corn Belt, Ihave more concern for soybean yields rather than those for corn.Pod counts on the soybean plants were down significantly fromlast year, especially in the Eastern Belt.įurther, the U.S. ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug 23 (Reuters) - After four days ofsampling corn and soybean fields across the U.S.
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a marketanalyst for Reuters.)
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