Northwest Iowa — After a warm weekend with high temperatures reaching as high as the low 90’s, much cooler weather is rolling in, and farmers are starting to get their tractors and combines rolling into the fields.
Angie Rieck Hinz, an agronomist with Iowa State University, says harvest season is just beginning.
The recent warm weather has cooperated with the early stages of the harvest season.
The unseasonable weather last week helped get many Iowa corn crops in prime condition for harvest.
A report from the state ag department finds 52-percent of the state’s corn had reached maturity, five days behind average, while five-percent of the soybean crop has already been harvested, two days behind average.
