There have been plenty of Octobers where Iowans were already a few inches deep in snow by this date, but the latest stretch of unseasonably warm, dry weather has enabled farmers to make significant progress on the harvest.
Gentry Sorenson, an agronomist with the Iowa State University Extension, says northwest Iowa has had ideal conditions.
“Corn harvest is definitely underway right now. We’re probably seeing about in that 20 to 30 percent completed at this time,” Sorenson says, “and there is a few soybean fields here or there, but for the most part, soybean harvest is complete at this time.”…