Episode 78, The 2026 Ohio Crop Tour

outstanding well let's talk about the crop tour and we're actually going to go in reverse order so this was day two as we are recording this seven counties we were able to take in and wrapping it up this evening with the first stop of the hometown tour the ohio soybean association's hometown tour at reinhardt farms and we started the day off uh we started the day off like it seems like a lot of the tour was dodging rain showers and And in a little bit of rain, but we started off right here in Crawford County.

Talk a little bit about what we saw.

Probably the thing that unique that stood out to me, we started in short stature corn compared to what we saw everywhere else.

Guys, you guys went out in the corn.

Tell us what you saw in the corn.

Maybe some observations with that.

And then, Taylor, you can jump into the beans we saw here.

Yeah, I'd say the beans.

We need to be specific.

It's intentional short stature corn.

This was not stressed.

No, it was a genetic variety for short stature corn.

Definitely a strange feeling walking through, and I didn't be able to see.

I know Dustin, actually, he couldn't lose me this time.

He had a problem of trailing me through the fields, and we could have remained in contact the whole time.

But, no, it was definitely different getting inside of that and seeing some bigger, thicker stalks in those ears hanging a lot lower than – especially the last field that we were in at the end of the day.

It was about the polar opposite

of that.

As far as conditions, you said it looked like it went through some stress early on.

Yeah, yeah, that was something that we noticed.

And when we started talking, asking some questions, yeah, it had gotten pounded pretty hard with some rain afterwards.

And a little bit of rotary hoe action helped get it through that crust.

But all in all, it's going to make a crop this

year.

Sure, good.