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Corn and bean harvests moves ahead despite some rain

Ag/Outdoor

October 19th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The U-S-D-A weekly crop report says farmers were able to work around some rain showers. The report says 43 percent of the corn is now in the bin — up from 30 percent last week. That put the corn harvest one week ahead of the five-year average. The bean harvest moved to 70 percent completed compared to 56 percent the week before. That’s also one week ahead of the average. The report says more than half the soybean crop remaining to be harvested in south-central Iowa — while all other districts have at least 52 percent pulled from the fields.