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Corn Harvest In Full Swing

Oct 30, 2014

Jeff Blauwet

SB harvest is complete in NW Iowa. Yields were really kind of all over the board this year. 50-75 bu/ac is what we saw this year. That is quite a range but lots of factors contributed here. In general the heavier “better” ground didn’t actually yield better most of the time this year. With all the rain we had in the early summer, some heavier soils were wet for an extended period and we know beans don’t like “wet feet”. We generally don’t fight SDS here but white mold is a factor many years and this year that again was the case. It came on late and most of the early varieties seemed to have minimal damage from the disease but fuller season varieties had more damage in general. We also had several light to moderate frost events that burnt some of the fuller season bean plants before they were done and that hurt some yields as well. We did seem to get good responses from fungicide applications to beans again this year.



Corn harvest is in full swing as I would say we have 60% of the corn out. Yields seem to be 20-30 bu/ac off of last year from what we have been hearing and seeing. The last couple years 200 bu+ has been common but this year 200 bu field averages are rare with 170-190 bu being recorded. Thankfully, it seems to be drier than the ‘book’ says it should be.

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