Source:Ray Grabanski, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 8/5/20


The old saying is that big crops get bigger. Right now we don’t have an exceptionally big crop coming of corn and soybeans, but it is above average – and growing each week.   This week we have another slight improvement in corn of 0.5 bu/acre, and in soybeans of 0.12 bu/acre.   These are small changes, but they are getting bigger, not smaller, as the year rolls on. It’s August now, with only soybeans having significant weather left to influence the crop in the development stage, and then harvest in the Corn Belt...

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