Producers Blog

Jeff Morey (Sales Agronomist, Region 5 – Iowa)

The 2013 harvest season started off at a good pace for the first three weeks of October.  However, since then we have had a few snow events in parts of the state and heavy rains in other parts of the state. These rain and snow events have slowed harvest, as well as the dry down on corn.

Soybean yields have been exceeding most growers’ expectations.  On the early side, the 1801NR2, 2101NR2 and the new 2302NR2 have shown excellent yields in both plots and field averages. For the mid-maturity group, the 2500NR2 and the new 2702NR2 have shown great yields while under stress. And for those that don’t have any SCN pressure, the 2408R2 soybeans are producing top yields again this year. In the full season areas the 3101NR2, 3300NR2 and the new 3002NR2 have all been performing exceptionally well through this tough growing season.

Corn yields have been highly variable all across Iowa this fall.  Some growers are getting much higher yields than last year, while others not far away have experienced yields lower than last year. The list of reasons for this seems to be very long and includes things like planting conditions, date of planting, weather conditions at pollination and whether or not you caught a rain in the August/September time frame. One of the things that seems to be showing great results often this fall is the SmartStax products. Our 5898STXRIB, 6108STXRIB, 6878STXRIB and 7268STXRIB are consistently at or near the top of most plots.  After looking at some of the corn-on-corn fields this summer that didn’t have a SmartStax product on them, this is the only thing you should be planting in your corn-on-corn acres.

Take a look at the performance of all of our corn and soybean products on the website athttp://yourdealersite.thinkcaliber.com/yield-results/.  Please contact your District Sales Manager or Agronomist for more information on the best placement of these or any of our corn and soybean products.