2021 Crop Tour Wrapup

 

2021 Crop Tour Iowa Wrapup

 

Day 2 Southern Minnesota

 

2021 Day SE Iowa

 

2021 Crop Tour

 2021 Crop Tour to begin June 21

The 2021 Crop Tour begins on June 21 in Champaign Illinois. We needed to cut one day out of our tour this year , but will still travel some 1,600 miles West and North through parts of Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, in 3 days. There are 21 predetermined stops along the way with 9 in Illinois, 10 in Iowa and 3 in Minnesota. Many of these fields are annual stops so we can compare the corn crop versus our last stop in 2020.

This year's tour stats are as follows. We will be in 21 counties with 8 of those stops being in a County with a Top 5 three year average corn yield for their respective State. Five of these stops will be in counties that are in the lowest 25% of their respective State for three year average corn yield. The number one county is Crawford County Iowa (Western Iowa). The lowest average corn yield on the tour is Jackson County Minnesota (Southwestern MN).

As I write today 3 days before the start, Knox County Illinois has the largest amount of rain year to date (19.59") and largest amount since April 10 (10.95"). Hardin County Iowa has the least rain year to date at only 8.54 inches and Marshall County Iowa has the least since April 10 at 3.56 inches. The rain stats project extreme dryness across the majority of the three states we will travel. We will be interested to see if it has had an effect on the crop yet.

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2020 Tour Wrapup

Day 4 Indiana

Day 4 Illinois

Day 3 Minnesota Crop

Last Stops in Iowa

Western Iowa Day 2

Eastern Iowa Day 2

2020 Crop Tour to begin June 23

The 2020 Crop Tour begins on June 23 in Champaign Illinois.  We will travel some 1,800 miles West and North through parts of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Western Indiana in 4 days.  There are 25 predetermined stops along the way with 9 in Illinois, 11 in Iowa, 3 in Minnesota and 2 in Western Indiana.  Many of these fields are annual stops so we can compare the corn crop versus our last stop in 2018.

This year's tour stats are as follows.  We will be in 25 counties with 9 of those stops being in a County with a Top 5 three year average corn yield for their respective State.  Five of these stops will be in counties that are in the lowest 25% of their respective State for three year average corn yield.  The number one county is Crawford County Iowa (Western Iowa) with a three year average corn yield of 223.53 bushels per acre. The lowest average corn yield on the tour is Jackson County Minnesota (Southwestern MN) at 176.47 bushels per acre.

As I write today 1 week before the start, Champaign Illinois has the largest amount of rain year to date (24.08") and largest amount since April 10 (11.78").  Plymouth Iowa has the least year to date at only 9.48 inches and Cass Iowa has the least since April 10 at 3.97 inches.  Clearly Western Iowa has been extremely dry.  We will be interested to see if it has had an effect on the crop yet.

As always we appreciate your comments.  Follow us on our many social networks on my YouTube channel (James Goss) for video's, or on Twitter (@jegoss13) for Tweets, Snapchat (farmerted 82), Instagram (goss_j) or Facebook (James E. Goss).  Hard to say how many of these will be always active but this blog, Youtube and Twitter will be the most active for both of us.