(NAFB) The final yield estimates from the first day of Pro-Farmer’s 33rd annual Midwest Crop Tour are looking good.
Brent Judisch is one of about a thousand scouts on tour and says the official numbers for South Dakota show a 174.18-bushel final corn yield. That’s 11.29 percent higher than last year and a whopping 25.89 percent higher than the three-year average, despite some weather problems in a few fields where he saw.
The soybean pod count in a three-by-three-foot square came in, as Brent says, better than expected. One thousand one hundred and eighty-eight pods, which was 15.8 percent higher than last year and 25.8 percent more than the three-year average.
Tour Leader Lane Akre says the potential, at least, is evident, with the numbers showing a 185.6 final yield, 1.3 percent higher than last year and 2.89 percent higher than the three-year average, which would beat the 2021 record. Regarding soybeans.
He says the totals show 1,287 pods in a three-by-three-foot area, 4.66 percent higher than last year, and 2.84 percent higher than the three-year average.
