Managing for Profit

Farmers say harvest success depends on August weather

In some parts of the Upper Midwest, the soybean crop looks as if it will yield well.  “The crop looks very good and has the potential to be extremely good,” said farm manager Tom Peters, with Farmers National Company in the Springfield, Illinois area.  Descriptions change, however, in northwestern Missouri, where some counties are getting deeper into serious drought.  Ronnie Russell, in Ray County, Missouri, on the southern edge of what’s considered to be extreme drought, tells Brownfield the dry weather has been hard on his crops.  “They don’t look very good at all,” said Russell, who has chopped some of his corn to be salvaged for livestock forage.

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