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South Central Iowa | 2013 had a wet start in large parts of the western belt. It had a dry July and August over most of the corn belt. Look at the drought monitor expand from mid July, 2013 through September. It was a fairly bad western belt drought, especially Kansas and Nebraska. We did not start with a widespread full soil moisture profile like we did this year. We planted more acres of corn, which I would presume the lesser acres this year are on better ground.
We yielded 158 in 2013. Is 4 years of trend worth more yield? I don't know if I buy that. But I think 2013 was worse in both starting conditions and in the western drought. It will probably need to not rain again to be worse.
I'm with you and think we need more damage to get under 160. It's of course possible though. | |
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Am I crazy to think 150s is more likely than 160s?
