Crop Tour Scouts Find Record Corn, Soybeans on Midwest Trek
- Bumper corn crop is still seen trailing government forecast
- Pod counts indicate soybean yields close to the USDA’s outlook
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They came from as far as Argentina and Singapore to walk among the soybean plants and corn stalks of the U.S. Midwest. What they found was evidence of a record soybean crop, and a corn crop that’s also huge but not quite as big as previously thought.
The annual Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour, which ended Thursday in Rochester, Minnesota, has seen dozens of people -- among them grain traders, analysts and money managers -- travel through seven states measuring the yield potential in more than 2,000 corn and soybean fields.