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Well I haven't seen it in person, but I've heard that someone in the area started harvesting corn. I don't know the moisture, but I have seen that the elevator in the area is only charging a penny a point to dry this year. We are going to start earlier with the cheap drying. We are in central Illinois area. Billonthefarm lives in the same area and we have farms next to each other in a few places.
 
I'm in the St. Louis area. Several have started, some doing the whole field, some just opens the field and stopping. only report I've heard for bushel per acre in my area is 27. This is just one field.
 
Drove to Waukee IA, west of Des Moines, yesterday. There was a BTO finished with one field and working on another, at least 300 acres out, more than testing the combine. I have heard 40 bu average on a couple fields in SE Iowa.
 
I talked to one of the guys at Korves Oliver in Waterloo Illinois Monday. He said they were shelling. Said they were averaging 91 bushel. He seemed pretty impressed and surprised.
 
About halfway through corn harvest. The seed BRAND and NUMBER is making a huge difference here. About a third of it was put into silage 3-4 weeks ago. The rest is being harvested and is making about 50 bushel/acre which is probably better than most in the county. One of the problems is that a lot of the seed is no bigger than popcorn and gets thrown out the back of the combine.
 
i talked to a guy around galesburg. they have around 250 acres picked and the overall average is about 70 bushels per acre with 27% moisture. said yields in the field have been anywhere from 30 to 140.
 
Corn and Beans are very green here for the most part even if it needs rain. I don't see too many combines running for at least another month. I heard a fertilizer salesman say he thought a couple fields of short season beans were getting close to being ready to cut.
 
Kansas is harvesting everywhere. I believe WIBW580 reported that the harvest was 17% complete last Friday - probably 50% complete this week between acres that are combined and acres that won't be harvested at all.
 
Fields being cut for silage near my farm in far east central Indiana around 60bpa equivalent. 13 tons per acre so far.
 
I heard on the news someone around Cedar Rapids, IA started harvest and average 125. My corn was planted real late and will not be ready for at least a month and half.
 
Unless they are putting that in sealed storage, why are they combining it so wet when it is still only August? I"d hate to pay all that drying cost on such a low yield.
 
Moisture in my part of NWIA is running 15-40 percent. A few guys are going to start soon. They say it's in the 25 percent range in the driest fields so they're going after it. The stalks and ear shanks are weak so they are going get it out while it's still standing. Jim
 
Started on Tuesday, what we picked ran 12- 12.6 moisture with 53lbs test weight, yield of 14.75 bpa. That was the only patch I had dry enough to shell, the rest is above 16 still and looks to have better yield potential. Elevators here don't take wet corn, has to be under 16 in a normal year, and they like to get it under 14.
 
In this area the field probably only had 1-1/2 to 2 inches of rain all summer. Moisture was 11 and made a little over 19 bushel to the acre.
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corn harvest in pretty much full swing in So East ill& west Ky only good yields are under pivots, even some Sbeans being cut. not much out there in places kj
 
I live in Cedar Rapids and work at an ag business. Personally I think a decimal point is missing or the monitor spiked next to the waterway. I will check around and let ya all know.
 
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