While the 2019 growing season was difficult, a central Illinois farmer says 2020 brought its own set yield dropping challenges.
Brownfield’s Rhiannon Branch joined fifth generation farmer Elliott Uphoff in the semi hauling soybeans in Findlay Tuesday. He says early season rains and later season drought decreased the high yield potential he saw heading into the growing season.
“We thought maybe 65 bushels per acre was going to be our worst field, but it looks like if we have any beans go over 70 we are going to be lucky.