Your Pro Farmer newsletter (August 20, 2022) is now available

The Pro Farmer Crop Tour is next week – the 30th year we’ve sampled fields on the third full week of August. Because USDA no longer collects objective yield samples in August, this will be the industry’s first broad look at field data from across the Corn Belt. The objective of Crop Tour is to find a representative sample of yield potential across the seven Corn Belt states from the more than 1,500 samples each of corn and soybeans. Heading into Crop Tour, crop condition ratings continue to decline, especially in the western Corn Belt. Unfortunately, the extended forecast doesn’t offer much hope for late-season relief in dry western areas. Meanwhile the drought in the western U.S. is causing water issues in the Colorado River basin. Low water levels are also an increasing concern in Europe and China. We cover all of this and much more in this week’s newsletter, which you can download here.