Cami Koons Iowa Capital Dispatch

A handful of Iowa farmers fired up their combines this week to start harvesting corn, according to the latest crop progress and condition report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

More than a quarter of corn acres across the state have reached maturity, according to the report, which is ahead of both last year and the five-year average for the reporting period. West central Iowa and the northern regions of the state had lower percentages of mature corn than the rest of the state.

Eighty percent of corn has dented, which is also ahead of last year, but on par with the five-year average. The report did not give a percentage of the state’s corn crop that has been harvested, but noted harvest of corn silage was a field activity for the period, along wi

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