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Virginia Farmer Wins National Corn Yield Contest with 602bpa – DTN Dec 15, 2021
Corn yields surpassing 600 bushels per acre (bpa) used to be unthinkable. For David Hula, they’re becoming routine. With a no-till, irrigated field of Pioneer’s P1222YHR hitting 602.17 bushels per […]
Corn, Soybeans: Sept. Yield Checks – Following Up on the Digital Yield Tour – DTN Sep 21, 2021
National yield estimates are the epitome of averages, especially in a year like this one with devasting drought in one region of the Corn Belt and blissful bounty in others. […]
Corn, Soybeans: Digital Yield Tour Estimates Barely Budge a Month Later – DTN Sep 17, 2021
Gro Intelligence’s national corn and soybean yield models barely budged in the month following the DTN Digital Yield Tour, with each dropping by only 0.1 bushel per acre. USDA’s estimates […]
Indiana Corn: USDA Crop Report Predicts State Record Yield Aug 13, 2021
The USDA recently released their first monthly crop report on August 12, which includes crop production data for the U.S., including estimates for 2021 area harvested, yield, and total production. […]
Corn: Estimating Grain Yield Prior to Harvest Aug 12, 2021
Fancy colored yield maps are fine for verifying grain yields at the end of the harvest season, but bragging rights for the highest corn yields are established earlier than that […]
Corn, Soybeans: Farmer Digital Yield Tour Begins Aug. 9 – DTN Aug 2, 2021
Once August rolls around, farmers have a pretty good sense of yield potential in their corn and soybean fields, but it’s much more difficult for them to determine what county, […]
Mississippi Corn: How to Estimate Yield Prior to Harvest Jul 29, 2021
There is a method you can estimate corn yield by thoroughly sampling random ears in a field. It will take some effort, knowledge and luck to represent a field, but […]
Illinois Corn, Soybeans: Taking a Look at Recent Yields Apr 28, 2021
For 2020, the state of Illinois had an average soybean yield of 60 bushels per acre and an average corn yield of 192 bushels per acre. Illinois’ exceptional soybean and […]
Corn: Was the Final 2020 USDA Yield Estimate an Outlier? Mar 4, 2021
The USDA released final estimates of yield, acreage, and production for the 2020 corn crop on January 12th in its Crop Production Annual Summary report. The final estimate of yield was only 172 […]
Corn, Soybeans: Average Yields Across the Midwest, 2015-19 Jan 6, 2021
Corn and soybean yields for the years from 2015 to 2019 are shown for Crop Reporting Districts (CRDs) in the Midwest. Also reported are corn-to-soybean yield ratios. Overall, corn-to-soybean yield […]
