Pro Farmer estimates the U.S. corn crop at 13.759 billion bushels, with an average yield of 168.1 bu. per acre, and the U.S. soybean crop at 4.535 billion bushels, with an average yield of 51.7 bu. per acre.
What prompted Pro Farmer to drop its national corn yield estimate below 170 bu. per acre? “The West is usually the best; the West is a mess this year,” AgriTalk Host Chip Flory told the crowd in Rochester, Minn. Thursday night. “While the East was still a beast, it just wasn’t beastly enough,” added Pro Farmer editor Brian Grete.
This past week, more than 100 crop scouts sampled nearly 3,400 fields across Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota. Read, watch and listen to what Chip Flory, Brian Grete and numerous crop scouts saw between the rows.
