Harvest
The harvest continues to roll at near record pace in Indiana and it looks like statewide yield averages will be down for both corn and soybeans.
If conditions are good in your area, you won’t have wheel tracks or ruts to deal with. However, you do need to think about a winter burndown to keep fields clean before planting next spring.
In the October USDA projected a 200 bushel per acre corn yield in Iowa, with soybean yield at 58 bushels per acre. However, yield reports are putting those estimates in question.
How good a job you do spreading residue behind the harvester makes a big difference in how uniform your corn stand will be next spring and how uniform its growth and development will be.
After Dan Anderson’s cab window cleaning article was posted to social media, a wave of new techniques flooded the comments. Here are a few of the most mentioned methods for cleaning cab windows in the busy seasons.
In South Dakota the harvest is a tale of two crops with big differences in moisture from North to South.
Results are also in from some corn teaching plots planted at the Heyworth, Ill., campus, including four starter plots, a series of sulfur timing plots, plus nitrogen and planting population plots.
It’s almost a rite of passage for a combine operator to snag an unloading auger on a tree or power pole sometime during their career.
This was a familiar scene in fields across the Midwest this season. Not only did volunteer corn impact soybean yields, agronomists say it sheltered rootworm eggs that can overwinter and infest corn crops next spring.
Ahead of the report, analysts expected a drop in corn yield, but not soybean yield — and the market responded quickly, says Bill Biedermann, AgMarket.Net co-founder.