Washington, DC (northwestiowanow.com) — Thirty percent of the nation’s corn crop has been combined, up 9 percent from last week. Forty-seven percent of the soybeans are down, up twenty-one percent.

Melissa Couch with the Upper Midwest NASS office in Des Moines has the Iowa figures.

21percent of the corn in Northwest Iowa is out and 65 percent of the beans.