date:Oct 19, 2012
rn at arecord-fast pace due to early seedings and because the worstdrought in more than 50 years pushed each crop to earlymaturity.
Lowered production due to the drought also allowedharvesters to move through the fields at a faster-than-normalpace.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday said 71 percentof the soybean crop had been harvested, up from the 58 percentfive-year average, and 79 percent of the corn crop had beengathered, well above the five-year average of 38 percent.
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