Late season weather complications continue to plague Iowa farmers during harvest.

Landus Cooperative Field Agronomist Zach Minnihan says weather has impacted some soybeans more than corn.

“We had some beans that just seem to not want to lose the green in their stems, which kind of makes them tough to combine. But then we got that first freeze, so that kind of helped knock the last little leaves out of them with green. We’re pacing a little bit behind, and then having those couple of showers before we even got on corn just extended it even further.”

Minnihan says Greene County has about 90 to 95-percent of soybeans harvested, with yields ranging from 35-75 bushels per acre, with about 10-15 bushels per acre difference every 10-15 acres. As for corn, Minnihan says farmers are about halfway done. Yields range between 150 and 250 bushels per acre, with an average of 215. Next week’s forecast has very few daytime highs above the freezing point, which Minnihan says shouldn’t impact harvesting crops, but it may affect another area for farmers.

“As far as putting ammonia on, you might have a little bit of a tough pull with that knife going into the ground. So if your plan was to get fall ammonia on, at least on soybean stubble or something, we can pick corn on frozen ground, but you can’t do much tillage or ammonia application when the ground becomes frozen and too hard.”

Greene County is sitting better than the average farmer across the state for percentage of crops harvested. According to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture Crop Report, 80-percent of soybeans and 43-percent of corn has been harvested.