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Dennis Schneider was engulfed and trapped in his grain bin in 2015. Without the proper grain bin rescue equipment, local fire departments acted swiftly, utilizing a 5-gallon bucket to help save Schneider’s life.
Here’s how you can follow along and analyze real-time results from the 2022 Pro Farmer Crop Tour.
The Pro Farmer Crop Tour’s data-gathering methods are disciplined and produce consistent results.
You have the opportunity to attend Pro Farmer Crop Tour nightly meeting or watch a brief broadcast online this year.
Corn production is down 5% from last year, forecast at 14.4 billion bushels; soybean growers are expected to increase their production 2% from 2021, forecast at 4.53 billion bushels,
The best analysis of this year’s data will be to compare state-by-state results to past Pro Farmer Crop Tour data, with close attention to the percentage changes.
The goal of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour is to get a strong, objective view of corn yield potential across the Corn Belt during the third full week of August.
Less than a week after the first shipment of grain left Ukraine, three more ships departed Friday. Grain analysts are still concerned about not only how much grain will be exported, but if the ships will safely return.
Crop conditions in Nebraska dropped three-percent for both corn and soybeans last week and are likely to drop even more after this week’s extreme heat and dryness.
Ukraine’s first shipment of grain since Russia’s invasion is now one step closer to reaching its final destination of Lebanon. The UN. says the shipment of over 26,000 tons of corn was cleared to proceed Wednesday.