It would appear that the recent non-stop rainfall events have finally relented with dry weather lasting into next week along with plenty of sunshine currently forecast. The lack of dry weather during September has certainly delayed the fall harvest season for Iowa. The featured chart presents USDA NASS soybean harvest estimates for Iowa. The NASS reports are weekly, so daily values are linearly interpolated between the weekly reports. The most recent report valid on this past Sunday estimated just 3% of Iowa's soybean acres as harvested. The left hand chart plots the yearly process numbers with the 3% value denoted each year. The right hand chart lists out those yearly 3% dates. Only a couple of years over the past 15-20 have been more delayed than this year. Things will likely not have improved much when NASS releases its next report on Monday as significant rains fell this week and we will need a number of days to dry out!

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