Southwest Iowa Crop Conditions

Southwest of Storm Lake

Counties of: Woodbury, Ida, Sac, Monona, Crawford, Harrison, Shelby

November 9, 2018

Past Weeks Rainfall: It is able to say wet!

Soil Moisture: Wet but most fields able to harvest, some are pretty mush y

Temperature: Highs in the 30’s to 40’s, lows in the 10’s to 20’s

Crop Progress: Some progress but slow going

Corn

Crop Stage: All fields are ready for harvest if the ground is dry enough.

Yield Potential: Yields are maintaining high levels with many fields running 200 to 250 bushels per acre. Some are higher and some lo wer, but most in this area will fit into this range.

Soybean

Crop Stage: Only a few fields are not y et harvested.

Yield Potential: Yields in this region have b een very good, in the upper 50’s to 80’s, mostly 60’s.

Corn Market

Current Prices: $3.31 /bu

Fall Prices: $3.62 /bu

Past Weeks Trend: Higher

Soybean Market

Current Prices: $7.81/bu

Fall Prices: $8.48/bu

Past Weeks Trend: Slightly higher

Comments:

Dennis Reyman AFM, ARA

Colder weather might actually be welcomed by some farmers who need frozen ground to get across wet fields. This can be a problem if the frost is not deep enough to support the weight of the load! In the rolling ground of our southwest territory, there are areas that are probably not close to 50% harvested on corn. Other areas are well beyond that.

Prices responded as well as could be hoped in light of USDA’s monthly crop report yesterday (11-8). The national and state corn yields were lowered nearly 3 and 6 bushels per acre. Soybeans dropped a little as well, but projected carry-out zoomed up to 955 million bushels, which is a huge overload. In addition, USDA revised China’s corn pile going back to 2008/09 and put a substantial increase in their supply. China is not much of a corn importer from the US but it all has an effect.

Crop Update Achives

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