The Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour is going strong through the first two days of the COVID-19-challenged tour. Despite being down a number of scouts on both legs of the tour, they are still pulling very close to the average number of samples for a regular year. The Western Leg of the tour has completed the surveys of South Dakota and Nebraska.
Jeff Wilson is the tour leader for the Western Leg of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour. He tells us about what was found in South Dakota.
South Dakota?s corn and soybean numbers were both up significantly versus last year, and higher than the three-year average.
In Nebraska, Wilson said that crops north of the Platte River looked drier as drought conditions crept across the border from Iowa. South of the River things looked better. Wilson said the corn was a little more inconsistent than in previous years.
Wilson says there was much more consistency in the Nebraska beans.
Pro Farmer?s estimates for Nebraska were up a little, but still pretty average.
The key for both states will be getting timely rains to finish up.
Today, the Western Leg of the Tour wades into the drought and wind damaged fields of the three western crop districts of Iowa.
