(Radio Iowa) – The State Ag Secretary says Iowa’s soybean harvest could be wrapping up very soon. The Ag Secretary’s comments come as the latest U-S-D-A crop report shows the bean harvest hit 83 percent complete by Sunday. That is up from 60 percent complete last week and six days ahead of the five-year average. The report says the southern one-third of the state lags behind in the bean harvest.

Lots of progress was made on the corn side last week as the completion rate hit 60 percent — up from 43 percent the prior week. That’s one week ahead of the five-year average. Growers in the northeast and south-central regions still have more than half of their corn remaining to be harvested.