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.
Dew was also reported on Monday morning in South Dakota, where the same phenomenon cushioned yields last year during the Northwestern Corn Belt drought.
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