date:Sep 19, 2012
The national corn and soybean harvests continuned to roll forward at a rapid or even record-setting pace last week. 26 percent of the Nation's corn crop had been cut as of this past Sunday, easily the most ever for that date (previous high was 15 percent set two years ago).
Want me to put that figure into perspective? Three years ago in 2009, the national corn harvest did not surpass 26 percent done until the second day of November!!! The Illinois corn harvest is more than one-third done, with