Northwest Iowa — The recent spell of warm and sunny weather has allowed many area farmers to either finish, or come very close to finishing, this year’s harvest.
The latest U-S-D-A crop report shows 94 percent of the corn crop has been harvested — and for the first time this year the harvest is not behind the five-year average. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, and Spirit Lake farmer, Bill Northey talks about harvest.
Northey says he doesn’t expect it to take too much longer before all the combines have finished their work.
Northey says the numbers he’s hearing on the harvest are good for corn.
Northey, who farms near Spirit Lake says his harvest is completed after some weather setbacks.
The Agriculture Secretary says he has some post-harvest work left to do before wrapping everything up for the years. While harvest is winding down in most of the state, southwest and south central Iowa still have more than 10 percent of the corn crop and almost 10 percent of the soybean crop remaining to be harvested.
