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South central Iowa has most corn left to harvest

Ag/Outdoor, News

November 21st, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – One area of the state continues to lag behind in finishing off the corn harvest. The U-S-D-A crop survey found twelve percent of the corn in south-central Iowa remained to be harvested at of the end of the week Sunday. No other crop district had more than four percent remaining, with the statewide average of just three percent of the corn still in the fields.

The corn harvest is on the same pace as last year, and ten days ahead of the five-year average.