Statewide Iowa — The latest USDA crop report showed 58 percent of the corn rated in good to excellent condition. The report says wind and heavy rain damaged some corn and soybean fields in north-central, northeast, and southeast Iowa. The soybean condition was rated 60 percent good to excellent.
Iowa State University Extension field agronomist Angie Rieck-Hinz says the recent rain provides minimal help right now.
She says the rain did have some benefit in the north-central part of the state.
Rieck-Hinz says soybeans will show some yield loss from the dry conditions. She says the drought started last year — and the rains will benefit the next crop.
Rieck-Hinz says farmers with already saturated ground will want the rain to start holding off as the harvest approaches so they don’t have to work in muddy fields to bring the crops in.
