Combines are rolling in central Illinois

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Combines are rolling in central Illinois

Uphoff’s view of 2021 corn harvest

Many Illinois farmers kicked off fall harvest this week. Elliott Uphoff of Shelbyville started on corn Thursday.

“What we started on was planted April 25th, 110-day corn with very good yields so far- over 200 bpa by a good margin. We are just nosing into things, but we are at the home farm in one of our better fields it will be well above our average.”

He says they planted 85% of their beans ahead of corn but there is quite a bit of green in those fields, so it looks like they’ll be harvesting corn for at least 10 days before any of their beans are ready to cut.

This was Uphoff’s first year implementing cover crops and he is anxious to see how the 65 acres of soybeans planted into cereal rye turn out.

“They have been noticeable shorter than our conventional beans. I actually have a side by side by side which is conventional beans, next to a minimum till field, next to a no-till, cover crops field. So it will be interesting to see how all of those beans compare to each other.”

Uphoff serves as the District 10 Director for the Illinois Soybean Association.

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