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Northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin crop ‘the best I’ve ever seen’

It’s the best crop he’s seen in his 35 years in the seed business.  Larry Hampton, Wyffels Hybrids district sales manager in southwest Wisconsin, tells Brownfield Ag News, barring weather calamities, he expects record yields.

“Up and down the hills it’s just phenomenal,” said Hampton Wednesday.  “I was telling everyone we’re one storm away from a record crop if we get a hail storm or something, but it could possibly be the best crop we’ve seen.”

Northern Illinois famer Adam Miller has high hopes for his corn crop, and he describes his soybean crop the same way.

“They’re tall, we’re expecting a lot of good things out of them,” said Miller, referring to his soybeans.  “Obviously the market’s reflecting it, so it looks great there too.”

Miller is dealing with market volatility by hedging, sometimes at break-even levels, but he’s also currently adding another large grain storage bin to increase his on-farm corn storage.

“I think we’re around 725 [thousand bushels], plus another 140 [currently under construction], so it’ll be somewhere around that 850 to 860,000 bushels of corn,” said Miller.

Adam Miller and his family hosted this year’s Wyffels Corn Strategies Conference near Freeport, Illinois.

AUDIO: Larry Hampton (2 min. MP3)

AUDIO: Adam Miller (5 min. MP3)