Preliminary Route Report with Brent Judisch, western Tour consultant
What counties (with state and district) have you sampled from?
South Dakota: Districts 9—Lincoln, Turner counties
Corn yield range: 131 to 199 bu. per acre
Corn yield average: 169.5 bu. per acre
Soybean pod count range in 3’x3’ square: 562 to 1608
Soybean pod count average in 3’x3’ square: 1,026
Please share a few (one to three) comments from your route:
The crop looked okay, but there were way more flooded areas than I anticipated. Estimating 5% of what we saw would be zeroed out. Several fields had very small soybeans behind corn that had been wiped out from flooding. On our route, areas between Lennox and Viborg had the worst flooding. There was one area that had some hail damage but didn’t seem to affect the bottom line much. I expected to see a more consistent crop.
Preliminary Route Report with Brian Grete, eastern Tour leader
What counties (with state and district) have you sampled from?
Ohio: Districts 4 & 5—Franklin, Champaign, Shelby, Miami counties
Corn yield range: 128.8 to 244 bu. per acre
Corn yield average: 192.6 bu. per acre
Soybean pod count range in 3’x3’ square: 930 to 1,976
Soybean pod count average in 3’x3’ square: 1,344.5
Please share a few (one to three) comments from your route:
Very good crops along my route today. Not a lot of disease pressure and recent rains over the weekend and overnight have set the crop up to finish strong. I was more impressed with soybeans than corn, due to inconsistencies in some fields. Overall, west central Ohio will have very good crops this year.
Preliminary Route Report with Chip Flory, western Tour leader
What counties (with state and district) have you sampled from?
· South Dakota: District 9--Lincoln, Turner, Hutchinson, BonHomme, Yankton
Corn yield range: 135 to 172 bu. per acre
Corn yield average: 161.1 bu. per acre
Soybean pod count range in 3’x3’ square: 453 to 1,610
Soybean pod count average in 3’x3’ square: 1,115
Please share a few comments from your route:
Corn maturity ranged from 75% dented to pollinated this week. There were a couple in the milk stage, a couple in the dough stage, although if it wasn’t in the milk stage, it was at least starting to dent. The variation indicated there were obviously two different planting seasons along our route. There was very little disease, aside from two fields with Southern Rust, though it was fairly light and not likely to hurt yield. Weed control in soybeans was typically good, but there were a few fields that had very heavy weed pressure. A third of the bean fields had aphid pressure—roughly 20% of our samples were easily over the threshold.
Preliminary Route Report with Mark Bernard, eastern Tour consultant
What counties (with state and district) have you sampled from?
Ohio: Districts 1, 2, 4 & 5—Delaware, Marion, Wyandot, Hardin, Allen, Putnam, Paulding
Corn yield range: 114 to 219 bu. per acre
Corn yield average: 173.0 bu. per acre
Soybean pod count range in 3’x3’ square: 352 to 2,203
Soybean pod count average in 3’x3’ square: 1,154
Please share a few comments from your route:
Maturity was all over the board. There was corn with the milk line just appearing to the blister stage. Some Tar Spot noted in Hardin County that was pretty severe. Weed and insect pressure was minimal. Some soybean fields had some weed pressure and lots of variation in maturity. Appears there were some later plantings due to heavy moisture during the normal planting season.