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Good progress in Iowa, but still well behind normal

Iowa’s corn and soybean harvest made good progress last week, but is still running well behind normal for late October.

As of Sunday, 23 percent of corn was harvested, the slowest pace on corn since 2009 and over two weeks behind average.

Nearly a third of the soybean crop was harvested this past week, increasing to 61 percent harvested. But that is also the smallest late October percentage on soybeans since 2009.