The annual Pro-Farmer Midwest Crop Tour was this week, with Nebraska and South Dakota being the first stops (Aug. 19, 2024) for the Western Leg of the tour.
Brent Judisch is in his 12th year of scouting. He says they had about 1000 scouts headed out into Midwestern corn and soybean fields to objectively estimate the final yield projections.
In Nebraska, Judisch says their numbers are lower than last year.
“We’ve had a couple of areas of green snap in the Lindsay area, hurt the stand about ten percent. I’ve seen some hail, but it didn’t do any damage to the crop, just more leaf damage than anything. Some grasshoppers along the edges, but we’ve not had any white mold, not had any sudden death, and we’ve not seen any aphids yet.”
Judisch says they also scouted in South Dakota on Monday.
“There were some issues in South Dakota. There was some replant, there was some late plant. But in Nebraska, everything’s on par. Everything’s been, I would say, normal. Haven’t seen any replanted fields at all. Corn’s been almost either in the process of denting or in full dent. Soybeans, we have not seen a flower on soybeans all day.”
Judisch says South Dakota’s results show a corn yield of 156.6 bushels per acre, about half of one percent lower. The soybean pod count was 1026, up a little over one percent from 2023.
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