The latest USDA Crop report shows the corn harvest in the state is 84 percent complete, four days ahead of the five-year average. Iowa State University economist Chad Hart says the mid-October prediction was a 15 billion bushel corn harvest — the largest ever.

Ninety-five percent of Iowa’s soybean crop was harvested by the end of the weekend. Most of the soybeans fields still to be harvested are in southwest and south-central Iowa.