DES MOINES, Iowa ( Iowa Capital Dispatch ) - Warm, dry conditions across the state for most of the week gave Iowa farmers plenty of time in the fields to harvest corn and soybeans.

According to the latest crop progress and condition report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 17% of soybean acres and 15% of corn acres across the state have been harvested.

Harvest figures for the Sept. 22-28 reporting period mean soybean farmers are three days behind last year and the five-year average, while corn farmers are four days ahead of last year and one day ahead of the average.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said farmers should continue “making harvest headway” this week with nice weather in the forecast, though “conditions may be a bit dusty.”

“Combines are rolling all across I

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