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Iowa’s harvest progress falls further behind

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. “It looks like the weather could be more agreeable this week and I expect harvest to move very quickly if we do get a run of dry days,” said Mike Naig, Iowa deputy secretary of agriculture.

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