(Radio Iowa) – After four years of below normal rainfall, the drought in Iowa ended near the beginning of the growing season and Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig says there are now high expectations about the 2024 harvest.
Naig says all indicates are that Iowa’s corn and soybean acres will produce a sizable crop.
There will be variability, however, as Naig points to parts of southern Iowa that recently got dry again and the flooding that affected thousands of acres in northwest Iowa. Naig says there may be record yields in many other areas of the state.
