About Pro Farmer Crop Tour

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The Pro Farmer Crop Tour’s primary goal is to provide the industry with accurate growing season information about likely corn and soybean yields at the state and regional levels during the upcoming harvest season.

Crop Tour's data-gathering methods are disciplined and produce consistent results. Results from the Tour have a big impact on Pro Farmer Newsletter’s annual crop production estimate released at week’s end. But observations gathered during the Tour can be just as important as the data itself.

“We pull enough samples to provide us with accurate data for a large geographic area. The Pro Farmer Crop Tour does not attempt to predict actual yields for individual fields or even a county, but we do want to have a good handle on likely yields for each of the seven states we survey,” says Pro Farmer Editor Brian Grete.

From The Rows | Aug. 23, 2022 — Mark Bernard (East)
From The Rows | Aug. 23, 2022 — Mark Bernard (East)

Day 2 observations and comments from Mark Bernard, consultant on the eastern leg of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour.

From The Rows | Aug. 23, 2022 — Brian Grete (East)
From The Rows | Aug. 23, 2022 — Brian Grete (East)

Day 2 observations and comments from Brian Grete, director of the eastern leg of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour.

2022 Crop Tour results: Indiana
2022 Crop Tour results: Indiana

Scouts measured average corn yield potential of 177.85 bu. per acre. Pod counts in a 3’x3’ square averaged 1165.97.

2022 Crop Tour results: Nebraska
2022 Crop Tour results: Nebraska

Scouts measured average corn yield potential of 158.53 bu. per acre. Pod counts in a 3’x3’ square averaged 1063.72.

From the Rows August 22, 2022 - Emily Carolan (West & East)
From the Rows August 22, 2022 - Emily Carolan (West & East)

Emily highlights key data points from day 1 of the western leg of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour.