National Ag News

Nearly a quarter of Iowa’s corn crop was harvested last week, pushing it to 44 percent complete as of Sunday.  But the harvest still remains nearly two weeks behind the five-year average.

Iowa’s soybean harvest, at 83 percent complete, was six days behind average.

“Farmers were again able to make good harvest progress last week, but we still remain behind average,” said Iowa deputy ag secretary Mike Naig, “Also, we do want to remind farmers that the deadline for seeding winter hardy cover crops has been extended for two weeks, so there is still time to seed them as they finish harvest.”

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