September 12th Soybean Crop Report

U-S-D-A's September production report is forecasting Arkansas's soybean production for 20-10 to be down five percent from the August forecast and down seven percent from last year. The report, issued September 10th, is forecasting soybean yield to be 37 bushels an acre, down a half-bushel from last year.
Meanwhile, fields dried sufficiently to allow some growers in north-central Arkansas to resume harvest last weekend, but more farmers need a stretch of dry weather to get the job done. Other growers in the Arkansas River Valley were still waiting for their fields to dry to get the last of their rice and corn.
According to the latest report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the crop is fifteen percent harvested, last week -- well ahead of last year's five percent pace and close to the fourteen percent five-year average.
For the week ending September twelfth, 100 percent of the crop is setting pods. Fifty-two percent of the beans are now yellowing, up from last week's forty-three percent. Thirty-six percent of the soybeans are shedding leaves and twenty-four percent are mature.
N-A-S-S reports 34 percent of the beans in fair condition, thirty-three percent in good condition, and nine percent in excellent condition. Five percent of soybean was in very poor condition and nineteen percent were in poor condition.

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