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Farm News: Bumper Crop For WI GrowerscommentsPosted: 10.13.2010
Wisconsin’s corn and soybean crops were rated 84 and 83 percent good-excellent, respectively, at the beginning of October. A warm growing season, with mostly ample rains, kept the crops in good condition throughout the growing season. Crops are reaching matur-ity ahead of both last year and the 5-year average. Corn and soybean harvests are both well underway, with 19 and 23 percent, re-spectively, of the crops harvested, both well ahead of the 5-year average. Wisconsin’s corn yield forecast is a record 162 bushels per acre, up 3 bushels from last month and 9 bushels from last year’s record high. Acreage for grain harvest is forecast at 2.95 million. If realized, production for the state would be 477.9 million bushels, a 7 percent increase from last year. Soybean yield in Wisconsin is forecast at a record high 49 bushels per acre, up 9 bushels from last year, and 2 bushels above the pre-vious record set in 1998. Harvested acreage is forecast at 1.63 million acres. This would give the state a production of 79.9 million bushels, up 23 percent from last year. Compared with last month, yields are forecast lower or unchanged in all major-producing States except Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, and Wisconsin. The largest decreases in yield from last month are expected in North Carolina and Virginia, down 5 and 4 bushels, respectively. If forecasts are realized, yields in Illinois, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, and Wisconsin will be record highs and the yield in Minnesota will tie the previous record high. Alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures harvested as dry hay in Wisconsin are forecast to yield 2.90 tons per acre, up 0.40 tons per acre from last year. Wisconsin farmers expect to harvest 4.50 million tons from 1.60 million acres. This would be a 16 percent increase in produc-tion from last year. All other hay is expected to yield 2.10 tons per acre, up 0.60 tons per acre from last year. Statewide all other hay production is forecast at 945,000 tons on 450,000 harvested acres. If realized, this would be a 70 percent increase in other hay pro-duction from last year. |