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Logan
County 'yields well'
2004
crop yields
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Provided by John
Fulton
[FEB. 17, 2005]
As anticipated, Logan County fared very well in 2004 with
the corn yield released by the Agricultural Statistics Service. The
Logan County corn yield was established at 188 bushels per acre.
This figure was just shy of the record corn yield established in
2003 with 189 bushels per acre. The Logan County 10-year average for
corn yields is 157.4 bushels per acre (1995-2004). The top-yielding
corn counties in the state were Morgan County at 200, McDonnough
County at 198, then Adams and Scott counties at 195, and Cass and
Knox counties at 194 bushels per acre.
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Soybean yields leaped from 2003 levels, with a 2004 Logan County
average of 56 bushels per acre. The 2003 average yield was 40
bushels per acre. The 56-bushel average eclipses the prior record
from the 2002 crop of 52 bushels per acre and was good enough to tie
Logan County for second-highest yield average in the state. The
Logan County 10-year soybean yield average is 47.6 bushels per acre.
The top-yielding county in the state for soybeans was Carroll County
at 57 bushels per acre. Carroll was followed by several counties
with 56-bushel bean yields: Logan, Edgar, Knox, Stark and Warren.
The Logan County wheat yield was established at 79 bushels per acre.
The record wheat yield was established in 2003 at 93 bushels per
acre, for the fourth-highest yield in the state. The top county for
wheat yield was Livingston County, with a yield of 83 bushels per
acre. Following Livingston were Woodford at 82, Iroquois and
Kankakee at 80, and Logan at 79. The average wheat yield over the
past 10 years is 68.6 bushels per acre.
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 In total bushels, the top-producing counties were McLean County
for corn, producing 61,771,500 bushels, and Livingston County for
soybeans, producing 14,882,400 bushels. Logan County production was
35,156,000 bushels of corn and 8,248,800 bushels of soybeans. The
Logan County production of wheat was 94,800 bushels.
Following is a table of Logan and surrounding counties, with 2004
yields in bushels per acre:
| County |
Corn |
Soybeans |
Wheat |
| Logan |
188 |
56 |
79 |
| Sangamon |
192 |
54 |
56 |
| Menard |
191 |
52 |
78 |
| Mason |
179 |
49 |
66 |
| Tazewell |
187 |
54 |
72 |
| McLean |
185 |
54 |
75 |
| DeWitt |
181 |
54 |
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| Macon |
191 |
55 |
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| (State average) |
180 |
50.5 |
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[John
Fulton, unit leader,
University of Illinois Extension,
Logan County Unit]
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