pro farmer crop tour

August 16-19, 2021

The Pro Farmer Crop Tour provides insights into potential corn and soybean production and gathers scout reporting from 2,000+ fields across Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota. 

In addition to coverage of the Tour on AgWeb, AgDay and social media, you have the opportunity to attend nightly meetings in person or watch the nightly broadcast online where you’ll receive daily results, scouting observations and historical comparison data from our Tour leaders. 

Join one of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour events!

In 2021, Pro Farmer Crop Tour gives you the opportunity to select your Tour stop or watch online from wherever you are.

Register and attend nightly meetings in person or watch the nightly broadcast live at 7 pm each night where you’ll receive daily results, scouting observations and historical comparison data from our tour leaders.

Online Nightly Broadcast – Free

Attend In-Person Tour nightly meeting - $40 per person  (includes 2 drink tickets and dinner)

AGENDA  for each nightly meeting:

5:00 - 6:00 pm                 Registration & Cocktail Hour 6:00 - 7:00pm                  Dinner 7:00 - 8:45 pm                  Program

EASTERN TOUR

August 16 – Noblesville, IN Embassy Suites Noblesville Indianapolis Conference Center 13700 Conference Center Drive South Noblesville, IN 46060

August 17 – Bloomington, IL DoubleTree by Hilton 10 Brickyard Drive Bloomington, IL 61701

August 18 – Iowa City, IA The Marriott Hotel 300 East 9th Street Coralville, IA 52241

August 19 – Rochester, MN Rochester Event Center 733 Airport View Dr. SW Rochester, MN 55902 

WESTERN TOUR

August 16 – Grand Island, NE Riverside Golf Club 2820 Riverside Drive Grand Island, NE 68801

August 17 – Nebraska City, NE Lied Lodge and Conference Center 2700 Sylvan Road Nebraska City, NE 68410

August 18 – Spencer, IA Clay County Fair and Events Center 800 West 18th Street Spencer, IA 51301

August 19 – Rochester, MN Rochester Event Center 733 Airport View Dr. SW Rochester, MN 55902

5:00 - 6:00 pm                 Registration & Cocktail Hour

6:00 - 7:00pm                  Dinner

7:00 - 8:45 pm                  Program

Presenting Sponsors

International Sponsor

Supporting Sponsors

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Reserve Your Front-Row Seat for the 2022 Pro Farmer Crop Tour

The annual Pro Farmer Crop Tour provides insights into potential corn and soybean production and gathers scout reporting from 2,000+ fields across Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota. 

The 2022 event will run from Aug. 22 -25. 

Join one of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour events!

Pro Farmer Crop Tour gives you the opportunity to select your Tour stop or watch online from wherever you are.

Register and attend nightly meetings in person or watch the nightly broadcast live at 7 pm each night where you’ll receive daily results, scouting observations and historical comparison data from our tour leaders.

Register to Attend Crop Tour!   Pricing

• Online Nightly 15-min. Broadcast – Free
• Attend In-Person Tour nightly meeting - $50 per person (includes 2 drink tickets and dinner)

EASTERN TOUR

Aug. 22  Noblesville, Ind. Embassy Suites, Noblesville Indianapolis 

Aug. 23  Bloomington, Ill. DoubleTree by Hilton

Aug. 24  Iowa City, Iowa Hyatt Regency, Coralville

WESTERN TOUR

Aug. 22  Grand Island, Neb. Riverside Golf Club   Aug. 23 Nebraska City, Neb. Lied Lodge and Conference Center

Aug. 24 Spencer, Iowa Clay County Fair and Events Center

Crop Tour Finale August 25 – Rochester, Minn. Mayo Civic Center

Register to Attend Crop Tour!

Pro Farmer will release its official national crop estimate on Friday, Aug. 26 at 1:30 p.m. CDT. 

AGENDA  for each nightly meeting:

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.: Registration & Cocktail Hour with Sponsors 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.: Dinner 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.: Onsite Program 8:00 - 8:15 p.m.: Nightly Broadcast online 8:15 - 8:30 p.m.: In-Person wrap up and Q&A

** All times CST.   Noblesville, IN location takes place 1 hour later than times listed above.

Thank you to the 2022 Pro Farmer Crop Tour Sponsors

Presenting: Pioneer, Pivot Bio

Supporting: AgLeader, Beck’s, RCIS, Taranis, Sound Ag

International: U.S. Soy  

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Reserve your front-row seat for the 2022 pro farmer crop tour.

The annual Pro Farmer Crop Tour provides insights into potential corn and soybean production and gathers scout reporting from 2,000+ fields across Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota. 

The 2022 event will run from Aug. 22 -25. 

Join one of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour events!

Pro Farmer Crop Tour gives you the opportunity to select your Tour stop or watch online from wherever you are.

Register and attend nightly meetings in person or watch the nightly broadcast live at 7 pm each night where you’ll receive daily results, scouting observations and historical comparison data from our tour leaders.

Register to Attend Crop Tour!   Pricing

• Online Nightly 15-min. Broadcast – Free
• Attend In-Person Tour nightly meeting - $50 per person (includes 2 drink tickets and dinner)

EASTERN TOUR

Aug. 22  Noblesville, Ind. Embassy Suites, Noblesville Indianapolis 

Aug. 23  Bloomington, Ill. DoubleTree by Hilton

Aug. 24  Iowa City, Iowa Hyatt Regency, Coralville

WESTERN TOUR

Aug. 22  Grand Island, Neb. Riverside Golf Club   Aug. 23 Nebraska City, Neb. Lied Lodge and Conference Center

Aug. 24 Spencer, Iowa Clay County Fair and Events Center

Crop Tour Finale August 25 – Rochester, Minn. Mayo Civic Center

Register to Attend Crop Tour!

Pro Farmer will release its official national crop estimate on Friday, Aug. 26 at 1:30 p.m. CDT. 

AGENDA  for each nightly meeting:

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.: Registration & Cocktail Hour with Sponsors 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.: Dinner 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.: Onsite Program 8:00 - 8:15 p.m.: Nightly Broadcast online 8:15 - 8:30 p.m.: In-Person wrap up and Q&A

** All times CST.   Noblesville, IN location takes place 1 hour later than times listed above.

Thank you to the 2022 Pro Farmer Crop Tour Sponsors

Presenting: Pioneer, Pivot Bio

Supporting: AgLeader, Beck’s, RCIS, Taranis, Sound Ag

International: U.S. Soy  

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Annual Pro Farmer Crop Tour Will Assess Drought Impact and Crop Health

• August 21, 2023

Cedar Falls, Iowa  (Aug. 21, 2023) —  Scouts will fan out across the Midwest this week to measure this year’s corn and soybean yield potential during the 31 st  annual  Pro Farmer Crop Tour . The tour runs Aug. 21-24, covering seven states and capturing the attention of the agriculture industry and national media. Observations and results of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour will be shared nightly at in-person events throughout the tour and streamed live online at  www.agweb.com . 

“Heading into this year’s tour, we know the corn crop was heavily stressed by dryness through June,” said Brian Grete, Pro Farmer editor and Eastern tour director. “From our 30 previous years of experience and data collecting, we know the recipe for a strong yield is to rush the crop to pollination and then slow it down through grain fill. One of the keys will be how much damage we find from drought conditions in the first half of the growing season.” 

Pro Farmer Crop Tour is the most thorough and most followed inspection of yield potential during a critical time in the growing season. Crop industry stakeholders watch results closely for insights around projected grain supplies and the effects on commodity markets.

“USDA no longer collects objective yield samples in August, so Crop Tour will be the first to broadly measure ear populations and pod counts from actual fields across the Corn Belt,” said Chip Flory, “AgriTalk” host and Western tour director. “The objec­tive is to find a representative sample of yield poten­tial across the seven Corn Belt states. We’ll pull more than 1,600 corn and 1,600 soybean samples, which should provide significant insight into where this crop is and how it may finish.”

Farmer-scouts and industry experts will cover fields across Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota on the tour. A summary of findings will be presented nightly at 8 p.m. CDT, through a live-streamed broadcast hosted by Clinton Griffiths, Tyne Morgan, Chip Flory and Brian Grete.

Each day’s official findings and results will be published on  ProFarmer.com , where subscribers have exclusive access to comparative data of past tour results.

Registration is required to attend nightly meetings and to access live-streamed results each night. Registration is available at  www.ProFarmer.com/register . 

Robust daily coverage also will be delivered on  AgWeb.com  as well as “AgDay” TV. Grete and Flory will join tour scouts on “AgriTalk” radio at 10:06 a.m. and 2:06 p.m. CDT to share the latest crop observations each day of the tour. Real-time reports will cascade across social media at #PFTour23. Pro Farmer’s national crop production estimates will be published in the Aug. 26 issue of the Pro Farmer   Newsletter.

Pro Farmer thanks the scouts that make this event possible; platinum sponsors Pioneer and BASF; gold sponsors Ag Leader, Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council, Meristem, RCIS and U.S. Soybean Export Council/United Soybean Board; and silver sponsors Brandt, Champion Seed, Farm Credit Services of America, Growmark, Nutrien and Pattern Ag for their partnership in the 2023 Pro Farmer Crop Tour.

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Day 1 - Pro Farmer Crop Tour

Eastern Route - Monday August 21

• Begins in Columbus, Ohio.
• Ends in Noblesville, Indiana.
• Tuesday - Day 2
• Wednesday - Day 3
• Thursday - Day 4

East-Central Indiana">Leader - Brian Shrader, Pioneer Field Agronomist, East-Central Indiana

• As of August 21: Corn crop ranges from R2-R4 development stages in much of eastern Indiana. Soybean crop growth stages range from R3-R7.
• Wildfire smoke and haze have impacted development to some extent for both corn and soybeans.
• Find more updates & photos .

Crop Updates - East-Central Indiana

- Brian Schrader

• Early season drought conditions as well as the impact of isolated heavy rain fall events accompanied by wind and hail are contributing factor to crop development and potential yields.
• Disease pressure, specifically GLS and NCLB remains lower then expected at this time.
• Tar spot has moved south and east more aggressively than in prior seasons.
• Soybean growth has been slower due to both weather impact as well as wildfire smoke and haze .
• Disease levels remain low in soybean, especially foliar disease such as frogeye leaf spot.
• SDS remains surprisingly low in most areas of state.

Weather Extremes

• Early drought stress appears to have had some impact on overall yield in some areas of Indiana.
• Isolated areas with severe hail and rain damage during early development.

Disease Pressure Levels

• While moisture and temperature have been adequate GLS and NCLB remain relatively low.
• Tar spot levels are increasing and confirmation of disease has been made further south and east in the state earlier then previous years at this stage of crop development.
• Soybean disease pressure continues to be low, isolated areas of frogeye leaf spot are being reported and SDS remains at low levels.

Western Route - Monday August 21

• Begins in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
• Ends in Grand Island, Nebraska.

South-Central Nebraska">Leader - Calvin Rupe, Pioneer Field Agronomist, South-Central Nebraska

• Moisture stress and irrigation management are going to prove to be a limiting factor in the 2023 crop in central Nebraska. We experienced some timely rains at the end of June and first part of July, but the end of July and early August have made for some struggles. Yield potential will be directly proportional to the depth of the pivot tracks.
• Drought is going to continue to be a factor on how well our soybean crop finishes out. We will need to be watering well into September on soybeans and August is going to be mission critical.

2023 Updates - South-Central Nebraska

- Calvin Rupe

• Very minimal disease pressure this year. Northern corn leaf blight seems to be the most readily observed disease especially hybrid specific. Lots of fungicide applications were made for the respiration and water use efficiency benefits, especially with lows being in the 80’s at the tail end of July shortly after pollination.
• We have seen a significant amount of HPPD flashing in corn this year due to the drier conditions during pre-emerge applications across several acres.
• With our current state of drought, there has been a higher call load of ammonia burn on corn, especially under no-till environments where high-speed applicators were used at an angle. Just as so with coulter machines less than 6” from the furrow. 
• Pollination window was very good prior to the heat. We did have some pockets with wind damage due to some July storms which has posed the conversation about the potential for some abnormal ear development.
• Pre-watering and irrigation over pre-plant herbicide applications have proven to be the best management practice for irrigated soybeans in 2023 to date. We achieved activation of herbicides and mitigated our risk of injury at emergence by doing so.
• We have observed some carryover herbicide in soil samples from late replanted acres of corn in June last year due to weather events. This has caused some concerns when we have replanted soybeans. Tank contamination still seems to prevail as the predominant issue.
• Herbicide applications made after planting consisting of Group 14 and 15 herbicides have been an issue with our dry soil conditions, especially when watered in to try and achieve emergence. Make sure to apply anything with a PPO 10-14 days prior to planting.
• Enlist E3 ® soybeans are showing very good potential in terms of nodes, pod and flower clusters compared to Roundup Ready 2 Xtend ® (RR2X) varieties in our geography. We cannot continue to abuse a good technology such as dicamba past June 30th.

HPPD Flashing from Pre-Emerge Herbicides

Leaves can look bleached or purely “white” when these symptoms surface.

Anhydrous Ammonia Burn

Carryover Herbicides

Tank Contamination

Enlist E3 ® Soybeans

Pioneer Agronomy Sciences Leader Ken O'Brien

Setting the Stage for Crop Tour Week.

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