From an e-mail today;

Revenna, MI

No tipping back on dry-land corn.  Best crop we’ve ever had by far.  Good thing we’ve learned not to trade the crop in our backyard.  Fields we’ve done so far (in Michigan, which is two weeks earlier than we’ve ever harvested) yielding 175-180 bushels

near Bloomington 214 vs. 235 last year, near Hillsboro IL 190 same as last year. corn coming running 14.5 to 22% moisture.

Comments from farmers running 20 to 40 bu. below last year. Corn on Corn seems to be much of the early Corn.

90 acres @190 bpa dry.  10 bpa better than last year.  24% moisture.  Rolling ground planted April 12^th.

Minonk ..70 ac yc on yc…175

30 ac corn on beans at 200

IN beans

WC IN:  Fountain Co:  70 acres:  55 bpa avg

Kokomo, IN   low 60's Expects later beans to be better than that

West Central IN: Carroll Co. Two 150 ac fields. One went 63 and the other 68.   Above average by 3-5 bu/ac

Fountain Co. 80 acres 63 bu/ac. Close to or at a record and 5-7 bu above average.

S of Taylorville IL

Last year 230

Expecting 210

Getting 180

SE of champaign IL           180-210                same as last year

W of Farmer City              131                         vs 200 year ago

E. Cent IN  9% moisture, yields in the high 60’s, about 4bpa better than average. Yield monitor running between 55-85bpa. Farmer said one of his best bean crops ever…thus far.

Keokuk, IA   The fellow just picked twenty acres.  Came out of the field 180 at 26% moisture, which  converts to 156 bushels at 15% moisture.  Test weight, at 26%, was 54 lbs, which at a dry weight of 15% moisture should pick up another 3.5 lbs TW           

The farmer was happy, as he pegged it at 135 bu/acre.  He had some 09’ corn to blend, so he decided to pick a few acres early.  3” of rain in the county last night with more on the way tonight.  With cool temperatures on the way it will be a while before any more reports roll in.

Halfway between Indy/Cincy, 30a went 10% moisture, yield near 66.5bpa. 3.1 maturity. Producer said yield was average to above average and noted green leaves and some green pods in the mix.

New Berlin, IL 

170 bpa, 194bpa and 153bpa , dry

Not sure field sizes but comment on the 170bpa was 240 LY *not sure if the 240 LY was a dry or not*

Drown out spots

Compaction problem

Working ground too wet

Fungicides helped and grain much wetter where applied

Some diplodia but does not sound as bad as LY

IL

Western Ford/Eastern McLean corn:  114 bpa,  143 bpa,  and 162 bpa.   These yields come from a farmer who has farms on about every kind of ground that we have in this area (some rolling and some flat).  (This guy would have had 180 to 195 bushel corn last year.)

IL

Monticello - 1st field (soil compaction issues) yielded 141 bpa, vs. 205 bpa last year.

Monticello - 2nd field (1 mile from 1st field, but with no compaction issues) yielded 201 bpa, vs 205 bpa last year

Montezuma IN (west central)   158  better than expected

Sidney IL                                                              138, 141                LY 211-247

Deland IL (near Clinton)                                105                         moist dropped to 15 from 23 last week

 first yield report from Iowa.

South of Oskaloosa----115 yield compared to 200 last year.  22-25 moisture.

East of Oskaloosa---150 yield compared to 210 last year.

Hiawatha/Sabetha KS

Yield reported 155 expected 160

Yield reported 165 expected 175 to 180

Yield reported 200 below expectation, last year 230

Adrian MO

Yield reported 120 expected 140. this field was planted early received heavy rain and had several low areas in the field that produced no corn...

Manchester OK

yield reported range from 65 to 90 bu/ac...in line with expectation ... overall average likely to be better than trend line for this area.

IL

Rantoul, IL (15 miles north of Champaign) - Field made 165 bpa, vs. 190 bpa last year.

Northern Champaign County - First 3 fields went 148 bpa, 175 bpa, and 195 bpa.  Last year, all 3 fields were over 200 bpa.

White county IL

198 acres 155  200+ last year

67 acres next to it 178 about the same as last year

Different hybrids

80 acres of corn harvested at Owaneco, IL (near Taylorville) with an average yield of 212 bpa and 20% moisture

Illinois

Graymont – 180

Maroa – 150

Minier – 160

Wapella 185

Gallantin Co. – 180-185

Stark county IL (Peoria)  Disappointing: Corn finished 170 bushels/acre. Harvested at 21-24% Planting conditions couldn't of been better. Just too much rain. The 2008 corn on the same farm made 206 bushels/ac. Hopefully the beans will yield as good as they look.

Stonington Ill  just south of Decatur Ill

Finished 160 by house, first year corn with no fungicide.- 189 dry.  Hearing corn/corn yielding at least 20 bushels per acre less than first year corn.

Convington Ohio area
100 acres  harvested at 17.0 MTS  yielded  235 dry

Decatur County IN  (halfway Indy/Cinci)

50% done and averaging about 190bpa, 10-15bpa below average. Moisture is averaging 16.5%. The area was dry and was 2” away from a good corn crop