WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa — Fourth-generation farmer Doug Boland marked 53 years farming this past growing season.

Boland started full-time work on the family farm near Williamsburg in Iowa County at the end of his senior year in high school. The farm consists of 1,000 acres of row crops and 400 acres of hay and grass and pasture.

“We have a couple days yet to finish harvesting beans,” Boland said Oct. 8. “Then we’ll get after more corn if the weather’s decent.”

Soybean yields are averaging in the low to mid-60 bu./acre, he said.

After experiencing hot and dry conditions for much of August and September, recent rainfall slowed down his harvest.

“It was a nice break to get rain and have a day off,” he said. “I thought we’d be more ahead. We chopped silage on Sept. 6, and we’ve been waiting on

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