Crop Watch 2025: Corn Yield Threats
Several threats are impacting corn yields this season, including overly tight tassel wrap, Southern Rust and tar spot.
Unscripted: ‘Overly Tight Tassel Wrap’ Affecting Pollination?
Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal field agronomist, joins Tyne Morgan and Clinton Griffiths to shed light on crop conditions, particularly pollination issues.
Crop Condition News
Thursday’s historic price loss was spurred by weather forecasts, but it wasn’t the only factor that fueled the drop. As prices clawed back Friday, analysts say it will take multiple factors to see higher highs.
Wild weather over the weekend left some farmers are assessing the damage. Powerful winds and heavy rain hit some fields hard, with down corn as a result. after weekend rains and winds hit some fields hard.
USDA’s weekly Crop Progress report released Monday shows the corn crop condition ratings fell nationwide, down to 65% good to excellent. That compares to the 68% rated posted last week.
Kansas Wheat Tour scouts say the crop is behind schedule in terms of development, along with pockets of disease, drought and freeze damage. However, yield potential on day produced a yield of 59.2 bushels per acre.
Yield prospects for hard red winter wheat in central Kansas were above average, scouts on an annual crop tour said on Tuesday, although yield-robbing diseases, primarily stripe rust, were prevalent in some areas.
Federal and state water projects say they will provide little to no irrigation water to many agricultural customers, so farmers must calculate how much food they can grow with their limited supplies.
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While corn and soybean prices continue to march higher, farmers are making progress getting the 2021 corn, soybean and cotton crops in the ground.
“Over the last 20 years, we’ve never seen a drought situation looking like this through February,” says Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Eric Snodgrass.
Wheat prices saw strength last week, as worries about the 2021 crop continue to grow. With concerns about planting spring wheat this year, it’s a factor that could strain already tighter supplies.