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| A marketing group reported their yield checks as: Average of all fields was 153.5 bpa with the lowest yield observed 49bpa and the highest 219 bpa. Their previous year's guesses have been right on the money. This year may stick it to them. This is very good farm land in central IL that has been blessed with good rainfall amounts. I have been in fields in central IL doing yield checks and found these yield variations very common. Sometimes within the same field, or across the road, the difference varies greatly. One common factor is the evidence of a shortened fill period resulting in shorter kernals, ie. more kernals per bushel. Another is severe ear tipping, which is still happening. The kernals are shrinking. The biggest variations of all are in corn following corn, and this year there's a lot of those fields. Replanted areas are all over the place, I can't begin to get a feel for the yields in these areas, they are so variable. More weeds than anybody wants to see. | |
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