Pro Farmer Crop Tour Results

The recent Pro Farmer crop tour results released Friday pegged the 2008 US corn crop at 12.152 billion bushels with an average yield of 153.3 bushels, and the soybean crop at 2.930 billion with a yield of 39.95 bushels.

Both numbers are slightly below the USDA's most recent projections.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated US corn production this year at 12.288 billion bushels, with an average yield of 155 bushels/acre, in it's Aug. 12 crop report. The 2008 US soybean crop will be 2.973 billion bushels, the USDA said, with an average yield of 40.5 bushels/acre.