The agricultural crop harvest is well underway with soybeans off to a fast start. The featured chart presents USDA NASS soybean harvest estimates for Iowa. The weekly values are linearly interpolated to daily for the sake of comparison. The chart shows the year to date departure of soybean harvest against a recent climatology. For this year, Iowa is about 20 percentage points ahead of average and is tracking 2012 (another drought year) well. This year is a remarkable contrast to last year as shown by the black line. Since the chart shows departures from average, eventually the crop gets harvested so that the departure goes to zero.

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