There is no doubt the surplus of rain in the area during the summer was a benefit for a good amount of Fayette County’s corn and soybean crops. But, there is also no question that those rains—excessive rain in some areas—definitely hurt the county’s overall yield numbers. The Fayette County Farm Bureau held their annual crop survey on Thursday. The average yield for corn came in at 194.57 bushels per acre—which is down from 211.08 bushels per acre in last year’s survey. And, 52.12 bushels per acre for soybeans—which is down from last year’s survey number of 53.52 bushels per acre. David Schaal, who is the Marketing Committee Chairman for the Fayette County Farm Bureau, says definitely some fields got too much rain in those heavy summer rains that moved through the area.
And, Schaal—who lives south of St. Peter—says he’s definitely never seen a summer like this one with the multiple heavy rains in July and August, that definitely brought excess rains in some areas.
The range on corn was a high of 269 bushels per acre in the central west area of the county and a low of 104 bushels per acre in the southeast area of the county. For soybeans the high was an estimate of 78.5 bushels per acre in the northwest region and a low of 18 bushels per acre in the southwest area. We’ll have more from the Crop Survey coming up next week.
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