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Iowa’s harvest progress falls further behind
Oct 16, 2017, 18:36 PM
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Wet conditions last week pushed Iowa’s harvest further behind.
As of Sunday, just 13 percent of the state’s corn had been harvested. That’s the smallest mid-October harvest percentage since 2009 and over two weeks behind average.
Thirty-two percent of the soybean crop was harvested, the lowest percentage for mid-October since 1985. The only part of the state over 50 percent on harvest was east-central Iowa.
This week’s weather forecast is more encouraging.
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