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See Day 1 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour
See Day 2 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour
After 6 years on the Midwest Crop Tour today is a first for me. I am on a split route. This is where two scout teams take the same route and cut it into two. Farm Journal had to do that this year because of the overwhelming interest in the tour. I am told things could get really interesting (as if things haven?t been already) through today and tomorrow in Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. We?ll see!
10:35 a.m.
After almost 2 hours of drive time we made it to our first sample spot, in Ogle County, Illinois. The stressful growing season is easy to see in these ears. This was some of the roughest sample of 3 I have seen thus far. Low ear count hurt this field even more. Our yield guess is 110 here. Soybeans were a different story. This field of 30 inch rows was heavily populated and podded. Very healthy green plants with a solid root system and they are through flowering. Our pod count in a 3 x 3 foot square is 1932.
Ogle County, Ilinois
Ogle County, Ilinois
