US corn and soybean harvests will need to be a near-record to meet demand, and just ahead of harvest, yield estimates around the Corn Belt vary.
Central Illinois farmer Rob Schaffer says as long as Mother Nature cooperates, he expects harvest to start in about 3 weeks, “McLean and Woodford will have good yields. The state of Illinois should have good yields, across the board. I don’t know if they’ll be records, but they will be good.”
John Linder an Ohio corn farmer and president of the National Corn Growers Association says parts of the Ohio crop look pretty impressive, “NASS, at one point, put Ohio’s corn yield as the same as Iowa – that doesn’t happen very often, so, Ohio does have a crop.
