Poll: Rate your area's corn crop

[Jim Meade / Iowa City]

The difference between how farmers rate local crops and what the USDA reports is striking.  No wonder we can't market - we don't agree on what is in the field.  Put another way, are we marketing based on how we answered this poll or based on what USDA reports every week?

[nwobcw]

   If we knew the true answer to that we could make a killing sitting in front of the puter in air conditioned comfort.

[Nebrfarmr]

Irrigated corn excellent on well drained soils, with yellowed corn in the wet spots.

Dryland corn good, but after 1 or 2 more days of this hot dry weather & yield will start dropping fast.

[gbryce]

Well, most will probably fall between 0 and 65, and I dont know if I can get any narrower, normal average yeild would be 120-130 so I would vote poor here.

[SouthWestOhio]

Surveys like this don't tell us much. If the responses could be broken out by state it could make more sense.