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Yield expectations deteriorating in parts of Minnesota

Yield expectations are deteriorating in parts of west-central Minnesota.

Swift County corn and soybean grower Patrick O’Leary says crops showed more promise a few weeks ago.

“Watching what the crop’s done over the last month as it’s maturing, I think at best we have an average crop (but) I don’t know if I can even anticipate that.”

He tells Brownfield a wet spring delayed planting by a month.

“And then went very dry. I think we probably only had five to six inches of rain the whole summer, so in our local area ‘challenging’ might be the best way to put it.”

O’Leary, a director on the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council, says he could begin soybean harvest by the end of the week.