Harvest moves ahead with good weather

Dry weather last week help farmers make progress on the harvest. The weekly state Agriculture Department crop report says the tractors and combines were moving through the fields at a good clip last week as the weather conditions allowed farmers to get into the fields each day of the week. The corn harvest benefited as 78-percent of the corn crop is now in. That’s well ahead of the same pace last year when farmers had only brought in 58-percent of the corn by this time. It’s also three days ahead of the five-year average. The soybean harvest is all but complete with 98-percent of the beans out of the fields.