by Ken Cassman | Aug 12, 2019 | Agriculture Technology, Corn, Crop Forecasting, Crop Yields, Soybeans
Main Street Data reports elevated risk of corn yield loss from early frost, due to late planting of the 2019 corn crop where flooding and waterlogged soils prevented timely sowing. In these flooded areas it was not uncommon to see fields silking in late July and early...
by Ken Cassman | Jul 17, 2019 | Corn, Crop Forecasting, Crop Yields
After a rough planting season with widespread delayed or prevented corn planting due to floods and waterlogged soils, the remaining crop is growing rapidly with return to normal weather. With reasonably good soil moisture in most of the Corn Belt, and no drought...
by Bob McClure | Jul 9, 2019 | Agriculture Technology, Corn, Flooding, Soybeans
Notes From the Field: Wednesday morning, June 19 — in the overwhelming flood year of 2019. Two colleagues and I are driving, northbound, from KC to Omaha on the recently-submerged Interstate 29 due to this historic flood year. Feeling quite a bit more like the Florida...
by Ken Cassman | Jul 1, 2019 | Corn, Crop Forecasting, Flooding, Nitrogen
Fertilizer is essential for successful crops; the nitrogen in fertilizer is a basic building block of plant growth and yield. The critical importance of nitrogen Since development of the Haber-Bosch process in 1914, increased use of nitrogen fertilizer has contributed...
by Bob McClure | Jun 11, 2019 | Agriculture Technology, Corn, Crop Forecasting
The last three years have seen record corn yields with relatively small yield volatility. 2019 is already very different. As a result of the slow planting pace, the USDA took the unusual step of lowering its forecast for corn yield by 10 bushels. Yield has not been...
