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The Indiana producer also bumped his corn yield up a half-point on Monday morning, and both his yield scores now sit at 3. That was caused by small soybean yield bumps in South Dakota and southeastern Illinois, along with the scrapping of the half-point cut in Indiana.
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The 11-field, unweighted average corn yield rose to 3.98 from 3.93 last week and soybeans jumped to 3.68 from 3.64 last week. Both are scored on a 1-to-5 scale, with 3 representing average conditions and yield expectations, and 5 excellent health or near-record yields expected.īoth yield scores edged up slightly this week, though they were not originally supposed to because of deterioration in Indiana. The 11 Crop Watch producers have been reporting weekly on their yield potential and crop conditions. Weather models over the weekend added some scattered rain chances during the next week for dry Corn Belt locations including Iowa, which encouraged heavy pressure on Chicago futures on Monday morning after last week’s sharp, weather-driven rally. Crop Watch producers remain reasonably anxious about this forecast as corn and particularly soybeans are in their critical yield stages. That is especially the case with the hotter temperatures on tap this week, focused on western areas, which also may face below-average precipitation for the next two weeks. The producers in Indiana and eastern Iowa report that crops may be stressed again by late week if the rain predicted in some forecasts does not materialize. Monday morning rain totals in some Crop Watch locations included 0.75 inch in western Illinois, 0.4 inch each in Indiana and southeastern Illinois, 0.3 inch in Minnesota and a couple tenths in eastern Iowa.
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The southeastern Illinois fields picked up 2 inches (51 mm) of rain over the last week, Kansas tallied 1.5 inches and Minnesota 1.1 inches, but the remaining eight Crop Watch locations got between none and a couple tenths of an inch.Ĭrop Watch producers across the heart of the Corn Belt, including in Iowa, western Illinois and Indiana, reported several mornings of heavy dew last week which along with cooler temperatures helped crops combat the rain-free week.ĭew was also reported on Monday morning in South Dakota, where the same phenomenon cushioned yields last year during the Northwestern Corn Belt drought. However, Monday’s rain totals were not enough to get all the Crop Watch fields through the hotter, drier week ahead without another shot of rain, as the previous seven days marked Crop Watch’s driest week of July. NAPERVILLE, Ill., Aug 1 (Reuters) - Monday morning showers lifted some of the Crop Watch producers’ hopes ahead of what may be a hotter, drier start to the month, even preventing a yield slide for the perpetually dry Indiana corn and soybeans. (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a market analyst for Reuters.)