IA, IL corn and soybean estimates down from last year
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IA, IL corn and soybean estimates down from last year
Corn yield prospects are down from last year in western Iowa, while soybean pod counts are down from last year but above the three-year average, scouts on the Pro Farmer tour said this week. In Illinois, scouts found corn yield…
Soybeans, corn up on yield questions, export sales
Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying, finishing the week with strong gains. Beans had an up and down end to the week while watching late development weather. A major private crop tour is pointing towards lower-than-last-year pod counts and yields in some key growing areas, potentially tightening the balance sheet significantly. Ahead […] The post Soybeans, corn up on yield questions, export sales appeared first on Brownfie…
Pro Farmer Crop Tour concludes, projects lower corn, higher soybean yields vs. 2025 | Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network
Pro Farmer is projecting a smaller U.S. corn crop in 2026 after its annual Crop Tour found lower yield potential across much of the Corn Belt. The organization estimates the national corn yield at 173.2 bushels per acre, with production totaling 15.344 billion bushels. The yield forecast is about 5% below 2025 levels and marks the first time in three growing seasons that Pro Farmer has not projected a record yield. Pro Farmer economist and Eastern Crop Tour lead Lane Akre said samples showed smaller crops than last year across multiple states. Expectations that Iowa could offset weather-related losses in Indiana and Illinois were tempered by drought in western Iowa. “When that spread is 20 bushels” in major eastern producing states, Akre said, it becomes difficult for Iowa to compensate. Soybeans provided a brighter outlook. Pro Farmer projected a national average yield of 53.3 bushels per acre and total production of 4.57 billion bushels, slightly above the 2025 yield but about 1 bushel below 2024.
PRO FARMER 2026 CROP TOUR; Day Three in Illinois and Western Iowa
Expectations were high among scouts as they headed out on Day Three of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour Wednesday in Illinois and Western Iowa. Doug Miller from Northeast Iowa is in his 21st year of scouting on the Eastern Leg of Tour. “Ear counts have been, I would say, probably a little on the low side. I mean, normally anymore in order to get yield, you have to have your ear counts up there. And there were gaps in the corn, so I’m telling you that it…
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