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Crop Weather and Progress reports from the National Agricultural Statistics Service for North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and surrounding states show that the snow and precipitation in the prior week put the brakes on what had been a rapid row crop harvest that is mostly complete.

Drought Conditions Continue Across Washington County

While warmer than average temperatures continued throughout a portion of the state over the past week, the first sub-freezing temperatures were reported in

Harvest surges ahead with more than half of the state's soybeans and about one third of the corn for grain crop out of the fields. "October temperatures

The commoditys price is up 22 percent in the past week and cotton futures spiked four percent to $1.09 - the highest since September 2011. This time last year cotton, was about 65 cents per pound.

Harvest was delayed slightly due to showers over the past week, but there was still an average of 5.5 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the Iowa Crop

Drought Conditions Increase Across Washington County

Crop conditions over the past week saw slight declines of three percent for corn and two percent for soybeans. According to the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition

USDA’s weekly Crop Progress report indicates planting of select crops is completed or nearing completion, with condition ratings higher than expected.

Vidalia onion harvest helped by dry weather