date:Oct 04, 2012
The growing season's drawn to a close in the Corn Belt and the combines are barreling through the corn and soybean crops at a record pace. So now that the crop year's nearing its close, 2 Corn Belt ag economists ask: How bad was the 2012 growing season?
Throughout the growing season, farmers, market analysts and agronomists have compared 2012 to the drought-ravaged year of 1988, when corn yields were almost 33 bushels/acre below trend. Looking at this year's growing conditions compared to 1988,