With the late harvest, Corn and soybeans yields this year are hard to predict. Joe Franks, Agronomist with Growmark FS said in soybeans, the five year average in the Western Illinois reporting district was just under 60 bushels with last year being the high at 66.1. Franks adds the five year average corn yield was 207, with last year being the high and the low in 2015:
“I guess some of the data that we compiled within our trade territory at West Central, and take it with a grain of salt assuming all monitors are calibrated in such that our corn over about, just shy of 50,000 acres right now is averaging about 187 bushel. That is roughly ten percent down from the five percent average and fifteen percent off or maybe a little more than last year’s high. I think that is maybe what we anticipated with the delayed planting season,” Franks states.
Franks added drainage and hybrid did become a challenge in this years’ yield in corn.
