The double whammy of dry weather and derecho is showing up during Iowa’s harvest.

Ryan Van Roekel, a Pioneer field agronomist in south central Iowa (Johnston) says dry weather has had an impact on soybeans.

“This is a three-bean pod but there’s only two beans inside of this. The plant did commit to this pod but it wasn’t able to fill all three beans in this pod. So that was a widespread thing that I saw in a lot of the dry areas.”

Although there’s concern, he says yield reports are better than expected.

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