See the sights of one portion of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
These three ears were typical of the samples pulled on day 1 of the 2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour. Two were good and one puny.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
A group of nearly 40 scouts receive instructions on how to collect corn and soybean data at the kickoff meeting in Sioux Falls, S.D.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
Here’s a corn sample taken from an irrigated field in south-central Nebraska.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
Crop scouts take pod counts on three soybean plants. Those numbers, as well as the number of plants in three feet of a row and row spacing are all recorded to determine the number of pods in a 3-foot by 3-foot square.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
Crop scouts measure the average grain length from three corn ear samples taken in South Dakota.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
A crop scout counts the kernels around on a corn sample from Nebraska.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
A record-number crowd attended met in Grand Island, Neb., to hear the results from the first day of the western leg of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
An enlarged Missouri River has swamped the area along Highway 2 near Nebraska City, Neb. The nearly 40 scouts on the western leg of the Tour will have to add several hours and miles to their trips today through Iowa to bypass flooded roads.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
Crop scouts measure out 30 feet in a Nebraska cornfield to determine the number of ears within 60 feet (both rows along the rope).
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
In Saunders County, Neb., this corn field has had a rough year. Hail damage (the brown bruises on the stalk), grey leaf spot and greensnap were all found.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
Chip Flory, Pro Farmer Editor and Western Tour Director for the Tour, is filmed by AgDay TV for the special Crop Tour episode.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
Check out all of the ears on this corn stalk! Being close to the irrigator can sure produce ears.
2011 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour
Irrigators were running full steam in central and southern Nebraska, as temperatures neared 100 degrees on Tuesday.
