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Iowa corn harvest catches 5-year average

The corn harvest pace has caught up to the five-year average in Iowa.

USDA’s latest weekly crop report says with more than six days suitable for fieldwork, corn harvested for grain reached 11 percent.

Soybeans are 27 percent harvested, three days ahead of both last year and the average.

Dry conditions have persisted this month, with topsoil moisture condition rated 41 percent adequate and zero percent surplus.  Subsoil moisture levels are 45 percent adequate to surplus.