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A couple of weeks ago, heavy rain caused delays for many Iowa farmers eager to get into the fields, as soils remained too wet for harvest.
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Recent rainfall has slowed the start of harvest across the region. Before the latest round of precipitation, Gentry Sorenson with the ISU Extension and Outreach said there had already been some field activity taking place across northwest Iowa.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows drought conditions continuing to improve across northwest Iowa following several rounds of rainfall over the past few weeks.
The main reason for the prolonged stretch of rain in Iowa is a very action storm track combined with the deep supply of Gulf and Pacific moisture moving north into the Upper Midwest.
Despite recent rain the KICD Broadcast area once again slipped backward in the Thursday update of the USDA Drought Monitor.
The area of D-1 “Moderate Drought” expanded in Iowa in the Thursday update of the USDA Drought Monitor.
The agricultural economy continued to struggle in July, according to the latest Rural Mainstreet Index.
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O’Brien, Osceola, most of Clay, and about half of Palo Alto and Cherokee Counties remain “abnormally dry” as does the southwest tip of Buena Vista County.