The 2024 harvest season has come to an end as yields in Dallas County are being reported to have reached unprecedented levels.

Dallas County Iowa State University Extension Field Agronomist Meaghan Anderson tells Raccoon Valley Radio that corn yields were very high, with the lowest yielding fields still exceeding 200 bushels per acre. She mentions that on the higher end for yields, they were over 300 bushels per acre. Anderson states that soybeans were just about average.

“There was variability as well, but we typically, on the soil types that we have here in Central Iowa, it seems like we just were more often than not soybeans are just kind of ‘okay.’”

Anderson describes that most soybeans ranged from the mid-60s to the low 70s for bushels per acre. Looking at the whole 2024 harvest season, Anderson admits that this was the fastest harvest she has ever experienced given the drastic shift with the extremely dry conditions in September to a pretty wet November.