The soybean harvest has made good progress this fall season in Iowa. The featured chart presents an IEM attempt to produce a daily analysis of how far ahead or behind schedule the given year's harvest was compared to USDA NASS weekly crop harvest estimates. For an illustration, the most recent NASS estimate for Iowa this year was 56%, which is a few days earlier than when one would expect to hit 56% completion based on an average computed over the past fifteen years. A comparison is made to other recent and notable years like 2019, which was miserably wet and late maturing. 2012 was the drought year and had great harvest conditions along with a very early maturing crop. Recent rains have slowed progress somewhat, but drier weather looks to return to allow progress to resume.

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