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Missouri farmer says corn yields average

Missouri’s corn harvest is ahead of the national pace. As of Sunday, 21 percent of Missouri corn had been harvested for grain, behind last year and the state’s five-year average. Corn maturity jumped nearly 20 percentage points from last week. Corn condition is 63-percent good to excellent.

East-Central Missouri farmer Greg Schneider in Warren County, started harvesting last week, his earliest planted corn and shortest hybrids, “(I expect) normal to average yields. I talked to different guys in the area. Some are experiencing record yields and some are experiencing not so good, so it’s highly variable.” Schneider says he’s getting around 160 to 180 bushels per acre.

Schneider says his soybeans were in pretty good shape until the middle of August when it stopped raining. He says the pod counts are high but the beans just aren’t going to be there.

Nearly 20 percent of Missouri soybeans had been dropping leaves while coloring reached 60-percent, well above the average. Sixty-five percent of soybeans were in good to excellent condition with most in the good category.

Cotton with bolls opening reached 62 percent. Rice harvest reached nearly 30-percent, a big jump from the week before.

AUDIO: Interview with Greg Schneider, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017: