(NAFB) Getting underway as we speak this (Monday) morning in Noblesville, Indiana, and Grand Island, Nebraska, is Pro-Farmer’s Annual Crop Tour. It’s year number 33 of providing the industry with accurate late-season growing information about likely corn and soybean yields:
Western Leg Tour Director Chip Flory says the area covered represents around 70 percent of the nation’s corn and soybean production across seven states:
He’s referring to USDA’s WASDE report yield predictions from last week, and adds he’s looking forward to a possible verification:
The Crop Tour will collect between 16 hundred and 17 hundred corn and soybean samples, Flory says, with a different approach for each crop – final yield estimates on corn and pod count in a three-by-three-foot area on soybeans. In 2024, the Tour found a heavily-podded soybean crop which subsequently failed to finish:
Each evening, they provide a webinar to release the state-by-state results at 7 pm (CDT) at www.agweb.com and, of course, we have continuing coverage right here on your NAFB News Service.
