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Article: Wet, cold blamed for crop yield drop; Slow development:Corn is down 11 bushels, beans 6 bushels per acre
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2001
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MADISON (AP) - Corn and soybean yields were down last year from
their record 1999 levels, mostly because of cooler weather and wet
conditions in late May and early June, a state agency said Thursday.
The Agricultural Statistics Service reported corn yields were
down 11 bushels per acre from their all-time high in 1999, while
soybeans fell six bushels per acre.
Still, farmers had a good year considering the poor growing
conditions that plagued the state throughout the spring, summer and
fall, several agriculture experts said.
"It was a combination of it being too wet early in the season,
too dry late in the season and too cool through the whole season,"