Corn Harvest Makes Steady Progress

Nationally, the corn harvest progressed 14 percent last week, but remains 26 points behind normal for this time of year, according to USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service. Harvest was most active in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin where producers combined 21 percent or more of their crop. Despite the active harvest pace in these States, overall progress remained over 2 weeks behind normal. Wet weather in Illinois and Missouri held the harvest pace to single digits during the week.

Meanwhile, the soybean harvest has just about caught up to normal at this point, with 94 percent of the crop now done – just three percent behind average.

This photo, by the way, comes from the U.S. Grains Council harvest photo contest Flickr album, submitted by John Nienhiser of Chapin, Ill.