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Getting inside Indiana fields

As the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour made its way into the Eastern part of Indiana yesterday crop conditions did not appear to get any better.  Brian Grete Sr. Market Analyst for Pro Farmer and the Eastern leg tour leader the corn crop in general was just very short.  “The ear numbers are going to be down (most likely),” he says.  “I can’t see any way they are going to be higher than they were last year. “  Grete says they were into a lot of fields that had pollination issues and fields that had very small ears that were stunted due to the heat stress and lack of moisture.

When they release Indiana’s numbers later today – Grete anticipates more shocking, but not surprising numbers.  “When all is said and done – and we have the Indiana numbers,” he says.  “I suspect we’ll see something very similar to what we found in Ohio – and they’ll be down significantly from a year ago.”

The estimates from Pro Farmer for Indiana will be released this evening.