date:Oct 11, 2012
. The harvest pace is the fastest since the USDA began collecting the data in 1981.
Farmers are wrapping up corn and soybean harvests in central Iowa with about 90 percent completed, said Kent Jessen, the director of merchandising for Heartland Cooperative in West Des Moines, Iowa. August rain helped to boost soybean yields, and corn yields are a little better than first feared after drought in June and July damaged crops, said Jessen, who manages grain supplies for 52 depots in 17 counties in