North-central Iowa farmer April Hemmes says she’s still waiting to start harvesting soybeans.
“I have not picked a bean,” Hemmes says. “I have not combined one bean yet and I am in the majority here. Hardly anyone has done any beans.”
They’re not alone. Only 19 percent of Iowa’s soybean crop has been harvested, according to the weekly crop progress report. That’s the smallest mid-October harvest percentage for Iowa soybeans since records began, and the lowest number among the major soybean producing states.
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