Harvest Updates from Iowa Corn leaders on Thurs., Sept. 29

Harvest Updates from Iowa Corn leaders – Thursday, September 29, 2011

Roscoe Eggers of State Center has harvested all of his early maturity soybeans but is still waiting to harvest some later soybean varieties. His area had rain earlier in the week but farmers got back to harvesting soybeans on Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 28). There has been very little corn harvested.

In northeastern Iowa, Mark Recker of Arlington has not started harvest yet. The seed corn harvest in his area will probably be finishing this weekend. Not many, if any, soybeans have been harvested. Some farmers in the area have harvested a little corn and some have downed corn from summer storms that they will start to tackle.

Deb Keller of Clarion hasn’t started harvest yet. Some farmers in the area have started harvesting soybeans. Other than a few headland acres, not a lot of corn has been combined yet.