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ISU Expert Thinks Harvest Number In South-Central Iowa Higher Than Reported

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November 22nd, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The latest U-S-D-A crop report showed south-central Iowa had 12 percent of its corn remaining to be harvested by the end of last week — the only region with more than four percent remaining. Iowa State University field agronomist, Clarabell Probasco, says from what she’s seen that harvest number would be a little higher. Probasco says some rare wet weather this spring may’ve impacted the harvest by requiring some growers to replant corn and those hybrids may be just now getting to the point where they’re good enough on moisture content to come out of the field. That could be what’s caused the harvest in the region to be behind other areas.