Midwest Crop Tour – Day Two
Today was our lightest day of traveling. We left Grand Island, Nebraska this morning at 7 am and spent most of the day headed a little south, then east, then north, then east, then south and east to finish at Nebraska City, Nebraska at the Lied Lodge at the Arbor Day Farm. If you have never been to this lodge, I would highly suggest visiting it.
On the route, I would call the counts we had nothing special either way. We had a couple around 200, a couple around 110, and the rest in the 120 to 175 range. We visited 10 counties and made a total of 10 counts. Our average bushel per acre for corn ended up at exactly 150.
In comparing our counts to the county averages for last year, 2 were higher, 1 was even and the other 7 were lower, but you can not tell anything from one route on the tour. Pro Farmer will issuing their calls for Nebraska and Indiana tonight and I have no way of knowing which way it will go.
Tomorrow, we leave and tour Western Iowa and end up at Spencer, Iowa in the Northwest corner of the state.
I will probably make a post after tonight with my thoughts on the numbers.
Paul Neiffer is a certified public accountant and business advisor specializing in income taxation, accounting services, and succession planning for farmers and agribusiness processors. Paul is a principal with CliftonLarsonAllen in Walla Walla, Washington, as well as a regular speaker at national conferences and contributor at agweb.com. Raised on a farm in central Washington, he has been immersed in the ag industry his entire life, including the last 30 years professionally. Paul and his wife purchase an 180 acre ranch in 2016 and enjoy keeping it full of animals.
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