According to the USDA, corn and soybean conditions in Illinois are not as good as the last two years. The USDA NASS site has lots of interesting agricultural data, if you know where to look. One of the great reports they put out every week are the crop conditions in graphical form. Just click on […]
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Last week the Illinois office of the National Agriculture Statistics Service released their report on crop yields in Illinois. The full report can be found here. As expected, the Illinois corn yield for 2012 was only 105 bushels per acre, 52 bushels below last year. They noted that this was the lowest yield since 1988, […]
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The USDA has produced some interesting slides for the World Agricultural Outlook Board, showing the current drought overlaid on production areas. The first two are about the U.S. corn production areas, then the soybean areas, and finally the cattle areas. Each pair of slides shows a map of the overlay, and a time series of […]
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There is an excellent article in the integrated pest management Bulletin at the University of Illinois by Emerson Nafziger about the damage of frost to corn this April and it’s impact on yield. You can read the full article at http://bulletin.ipm.illinois.edu/article.php?id=1619 Here are the low temperatures reported last week, sorted from coldest to not so coldest. […]