Area farmers are getting nervous. Harvest season in eastern Iowa is running two weeks behind because of the cool, wet weather.

Mike McLaughlin farms eighteen hundred acres of corn and soybeans in Jackson County. His machinery is at a standstill. The fields are too wet and muddy. Mike says it will be next week before he gets a chance to harvest, provided conditions are favorable. So far this fall, McLaughlin has harvested about twenty five acres of soybeans and no field corn. Mike says the longer the delay, the greater the risk that a farmer could lose a lot of yield on corn and soybeans.

Scott Hingtgen farms near Bellevue. He says one of a farmer's biggest nightmares at this time of year is a strong wind which could blow the corn down. The goal is to complete the harvest by Thanksgiving. Time will tell. 

There could still be a bumper crop, perhaps one hundred ninety bushels an acre for field corn and maybe sixty bushels an acre for soybeans,