Corn in U.S. Seen by Cordonnier at Risk of Damage From Frost
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Late-sown corn in the U.S. is at risk of frost damage in the northern and northwestern Corn Belt because of delayed development, according to Michael Cordonnier, president and owner of crop analyst Soybean & Corn Advisor Inc.
Should initial frosts occur two weeks earlier than normal on Sept. 15, “we would have a big problem,” he wrote in an online report today. Early frosts may leave the corn yield in the U.S., the world’s biggest producer of the grain, at 150 bushels an acre (9.42 metric tons a hectare) or less, it showed.