Farmers are nearing completion of the harvest season.

Dallas Center Heartland Cooperative Manager Randy Eastman says yields have been good this year despite dry conditions as he says corn is averaging around 240-250 bushels per acre while soybeans are at 70 bushels per acre.

“It’s a really good number for how dry it was. That’s above what anybody would have expected. When they first started going into harvest they didn’t know what to expect, I know they didn’t expect to see that kind of yield with the amount of rain that we had.”

Eastman tells Raccoon Valley Radio in terms of yield there were reasons as to why the numbers are higher than what people may have expected with the drought conditions that took place this growing season.

“I think a lot of it is due to the amount of rain that came at the right time this year, because we didn’t have a whole lot of rain and with that being said we didn’t have the ponds in the fields so that added to the bushels per acre.”

According to the latest Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report statewide soybeans were 97-percent harvested while 91-percent of corn has been harvested.