Farmers’ soybean yield estimates vary across the grain belt

Farmers’ soybean yield estimates vary across the grain belt

Soybean yield estimates are all over the board as many midwestern farmers wait for harvest to begin.

Stan Born in central Illinois says while a summer dry spell stressed the crop some, it still looks pretty good.

“Soybeans, I believe, will be above my five-year average of 62 bushels per acre. I think we have a chance of being in the 70+ range this year.”

Dawn Scheier’s farm in southeast South Dakota got hit with a spring derecho bearing 120 mph winds which forced them to replant more than 500 acres of soybeans that saw very little water in August.  

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