Commodities
Vibrant Green Fields Signal a Big US Corn Crop and Weak Prices
- Tour findings show yields on pace to top historical averages
- Four-day tour is first ‘boots on the ground’ look at plants
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Between hail, strong winds, floods and plant disease, US corn crops were put through some tough times this summer. But somehow, the fields of green blanketing America’s heartland have proved to be ever resilient.
Those are the findings heading into the final day of a Midwest tour that sends scouts traversing through the Crop Belt to measure yield potential. The scouts saw evidence of corn stalks with the tell-tale vibrant dark green leaves that typically signal plants will produce plump, starchy kernels of grain in the final stretches of the growing season. Soybean fields were also lush and healthy.