US crop tour stokes fears of looming corn shortage
A poor U.S. harvest will likely exacerbate the food inflation that's already been gripping the world.
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A poor U.S. harvest will likely exacerbate the food inflation that's already been gripping the world.
Drought and extreme heat in western portions of the U.S. crop belt have wreaked havoc on corn: Plants are short. Stalks are browning. And cobs very often aren't filling with yellow kernels.
The quality of corn and soybean crops in South Dakota and Ohio is deteriorating rapidly. The Midwestern leg of the 2022 crop tour of the agriculture publication Pro Farmer has found that extreme [...]
U.S. corn futures popped to a seven-week high on Tuesday as a report on crop conditions and scouts for thePro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour raised concerns that the size of the U.S
From Bloomberg: Scouts traveled through parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, Ohio and Indiana on Monday, Aug. 22, carefully measuring fields to determine the outlook for this season's harvest. In Ohio, corn yields were estimated to average 174.2 bushels per acre based on 130 fields sampled, down from 185.1 bu/acre seen last year.