Iowa: Weather brings a delayed harvest

As fall sets in and temperatures near the first frost, much of the corn in the field is green, not gold — testimony to the hard year and late start most farmers are coping with.

First came a winter with so much snow it saturated the ground as soon as it melted. The wet spring segued into widespread flooding and a relatively cool summer. Horning said his fields had mostly escaped the June flooding and his crop has done well, considering the late start it got.
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Don Ruley has worked at the Linn Co-op in Springville for 21 years and says this is the slowest year he's ever seen.

As temperatures drop, Ruley said, some farmers are concerned that a frost may hit their corn hard, which would reduce crop output even more.

"We're definitely not going to have bin-busting yields this year," Fawcett said.