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'Interesting' corn year: Dragging yields continue

Agriculture.com Staff 09/28/2010 @ 2:28pm


See how some of this summer's challenging growing conditions are being reflected in corn yields this fall in the Corn Belt and Great Plains.

Corn harvest exposes a lot of issuesCropsey, Illinois, farmer and crop adviser Aaron Steffen talks with Mike McGinnis about some oof the challenges he has faced in his corn crop this year.


 

An 'interesting' corn year
(compiled by Mike McGinnis and Jeff Caldwell)

 

It's been an 'interesting' harvest year for Aaron Steffen of Cropsey, Illinois, and other Midwest and Plains corn farmers. See some of the latest reports from the field.

 

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