Today brought the beautiful weather back to the state of Iowa, but as we all know, that hasn’t been the story for this past growing season. Overall harvest progress is still slightly behind due to heavy rains at the beginning of harvest season, and almost nonstop rains flooded many of the fields in Iowa over the summer. AgriGold Field Agronomist Bryant Luers said the months of June and September were particularly rainy.
Luers said the heavy September rains caused farmers to start nearly half a month late on harvest this year.
Much of the talk surrounding the impact of these rains has been about sprouting and ear mold in corn, but Luers said many soybean fields saw issues as well.
Luers said the rain also caused a lot of yield variability in fields as well since some spots drained the water away better than others.
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