In most areas, the Pro Farmer Crop Tour found better conditions than one year ago. Minnesota was the exception. Pro Farmer estimated Minnesota corn yields at 181 bushels per acre, down almost five percent from last year. For soybeans, there were 984 pods in a three-by-three-foot square, down 11 percent. Chip Flory led the western leg of the tour and said he was impressed with the crop in southwest Minnesota, but conditions deteriorated as they went east. “It was toast in the southeast part of Minnesota,” said Flory. “One of the questions that we always get in Minnesota is,this crop going to make it before the first freeze happens? The corn crop was dented in southcentral Minnesota. In southeast Minnesota, it could frost tonight and it’s not going to hurt the corn.” Crop scout Brent Judisch said the crop in southern Minnesota is average at best.
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