Crop conditions continue to run high in the western corn belt for corn and soybeans. However, late season diseases may trim yield on what looked like a record crop. Pioneer Field Agronomist Kyle Kayser covers southeastern South Dakota and northeast Nebraska. He says while the rains in August were generally favorable for soybeans, the moisture has brought on some late season disease pressure that can’t be treated with fungicides.

He says the amount of yield loss in soybeans will vary according to the level of disease pressure.
Diseases have also started to come on in the corn and here too Kayser says that could hurt yield and increase harvest losses.

Kayser says farmers with stalk rot need to be doing a push test on their corn and if it breaks easily they may have to harvest that field early and at a higher moisture level.