Preliminary Route Report with Lane Akre, eastern Tour leader<\/p>\n
What counties (with state and district) have you sampled from?<\/p>\n
ILLINOIS \u2013 La Salle, Putnam, Marshall, Bureau, Stark, Knox, Henry, Mercer, Rock Island counties<\/p>\n
Corn yield range: 136 to 213 bu. per acre<\/p>\n
Corn yield average: 173.9 bu. per acre<\/p>\n
Soybean pod count range in 3\u2019x3\u2019 square: 846 to 1,498<\/p>\n
Soybean pod count average in 3\u2019x3\u2019 square: 1,154.2<\/p>\n
Please share a few (one to three) comments from your route:<\/p>\n
The corn crop in Illinois is pretty underwhelming. It has been more consistent from a yield and maturity perspective, but the yields are consistently low, due to low populations and big ears and high populations and small ears, which leads to about the same yield. There is obvious nitrogen deficiency across the corn due to persistent rains throughout the growing season, and that hasn\u2019t helped. Most of the crop is dented or has started to dent. Disease pressure was ramped up today, we saw a couple fields with rust, but still not tar spot. We did see some northern leaf blight and bacterial leaf blight. There was also some down corn in western Illinois \u2013 it wasn\u2019t terribly widespread, but there were both broken and goosenecked stalks.<\/p>\n
There was more sudden death in the soybean crop than we\u2019ve been seeing, and the crop is further along what we\u2019ve seen in prior days and seems to have a little bit more potential to fill out upper pods. There was a field of brown stem rot and we noticed some white mold from the truck but didn\u2019t sample that particular field. Most fields were clean; a couple had some weed pressure but looked average to better-than average.<\/p>\n
Preliminary Route Report with Kyle Wendland, eastern Tour consultant<\/p>\n
What counties (with state and district) have you sampled from?<\/p>\n
ILLINOIS: Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Henry, Whiteside counties
IOWA: Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Cedar counties<\/p>\n
Corn yield range:
IL \u2013 132 to 211 bu. per acre
IA \u2013 162 to 264 bu. per acre<\/p>\n
Corn yield average:
IL \u2013 188.75 bu. per acre
IA \u2013 203.3 bu. per acre<\/p>\n
Soybean pod count range in 3\u2019x3\u2019 square:
IL \u2013 816 to 2,160
IA \u2013 757 to 1,440<\/p>\n
Soybean pod count average in 3\u2019x3\u2019 square:
IL \u2013 1,585.25
IA \u2013 1,034<\/p>\n
Please share a few comments from your route:<\/p>\n
The corn looks fairly consistent today, but we have seen some wind damage northwest of Clinton. Not real severe, but there were three or four stalks snapped off here and there. Maturity seems to have increased \u2013 every one of our samples today has started the dent phase. We\u2019re seeing the same diseases we\u2019ve been seeing \u2013 gray leaf spot and northern leaf blight. Overall grain length today compared to past years has been shorter.<\/p>\n
As wet as it\u2019s been, it\u2019s been a breeding ground for disease in soybeans. We\u2019ve discovered this area had the sixth wettest June on record. There\u2019s white mold and sudden death that has affected a lot of the soybeans we\u2019ve sampled. Everything is done setting blooms \u2013 there are still some very small pods that could possibly fill out. The ground is drier than yesterday, but mud is still sticking to our boots, so there\u2019s plenty of moisture to get the crop to the finish line. Our last sample had a lot of foxtail, but there haven\u2019t been any widespread weed or insect issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preliminary Route Report with Lane Akre, eastern Tour leader What counties (with state and district) have you sampled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-819517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}