With virtually all of the state’s corn and soybean crops planted, most of them well ahead of schedule, farmers across the region are reporting the plants look to be emerging in very good shape. Kelvin Leibold ,a farm management specialist with the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach,  says many growers are looking forward to the opportunity for record yields this fall.

While some fields are wet, it’s a far cry from 2019 when prolonged flooding forced a number of Iowa producers to abandon their acres for the entire growing season.