Day 1 of the Crop Tour
We had our orientation meeting Sunday night in Columbus and got started on the crop tour first thing Monday morning. Our route took us on a northwesterly route through Ohio and then on a south westerly route down to Fishers, Indiana.
Our first corn sample was a whopping 44 bushels, which ended up being a low for the day. Three stops later, we hit our high sample of about 175 bushels per acre. Most of the other scouts found the best corn in Ohio and progressively worse corn in Indiana. We had the opposite occur. Our best overall corn yield was Indiana at about 125 bushels per acre while Ohio ended up at about 110.
Soybeans counts are down from last year and the development is further ahead suggesting it will be difficult to get a lot more fill in the beans beyond what is here now, however, beans are very adaptive and can always surprise to the upside.
We ended up with 16 counts, 9 in Ohio and 7 in Indiana. Ended up at the hotel at about 4:30 and then had dinner with about 150-200 farmers. The Mid West Crop tour call for Ohio was for overall yield of about 110 bushels down from the three year average of about 160.
South Dakota is called at a 74 bushel average down from the three year average of 144. These states are important, however, the three I states plus Minnesota and Nebraska will be much more important. We will have the call for Indiana and Nebraska tomorrow. We shall see what the trend tells us.
Paul Neiffer, CPA
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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