Another harvest season has snuck up on us and unfortunately it probably won't be able to hold up well vs. 2012. Early reports on soybean yields are in the 30-39 bu/a range. Nothing special. The bean size so far is small and there just aren't enough pods on the top part of the bean plant to yield like last year.
For corn, my early theory was that corn will in general be light in test weight. I also looked at some ears of corn that were close to being black-layered and there just didn't seem to be much moisture there. Usually at black layer we can expect 33-35% moisture corn. It didn't seem like that would fit this year and I was expecting 27-29% moisture. Yesterday I found some corn that had black-layered over the weekend. I hand harvested a few ears and took test weight and moisture. I was right on the test weight as it weighed only 51.7#. The moisture was a surprise as it was only 23.2%! Add a point of moisture for going through a combine and it was still around 25%. It was a 93 day hybrid that was in a plot that is suffering alot of moisture stress but there will be others out there like it.
I have been in corn that will go 180bu/a and I have been in corn that will go half that. From field to field expect wide variances this fall based on rotation, moistures stress, even drown out north of Wheaton. It won't be as fun as last year.
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