CORNING, Iowa — The 2021 harvest is moving along smoothly for Terry and Lowell Evans.

The father-son duo farm in northern Adams County in Southwest Iowa. Harvest started in late September, and by Oct. 13 they were half done with beans and had finished two farms with corn.

ROWLEY, Iowa — Combines have been moving through plenty of dust in Northeast Iowa. The dry soils have persisted through harvest season.

That allowed harvest season to start in mid- to late September for Keith Milbach, though crops have showed mixed results. The farmer from Buchanan County said rains turned off after the first three weeks of July, which weighed on the crop.

INDIANOLA, Iowa — The sun was going down fast as Bill Bruere tried to finish a couple of small patches of soybeans in a field last week. Rain was predicted for the next day in South Central Iowa. The ground was already damp. But Bruere wasn’t complaining.

“It’s going fairly good,” Bruere says of the harvest.

LOGAN, Iowa — Harvest started early for Matt and Bruce Busing.

“We started Sept. 25, which is early for us,” Matt Busing said Oct. 13.

ELDRIDGE, Iowa — Rain stopped Hans Schnekloth in the field on Oct. 7, but otherwise it had been a fast start to harvest season in East Central Iowa.

The Scott County farmer said the rain was good to see, but it would have been even nicer throughout the growing season.

ALLEMAN, Iowa — Harold Lande’s combine was down for repairs the day he wanted to harvest a soybean field near Alleman in late September. But his friend, Steve Kamps, came over with his combine to do the job.

The combine has since been repaired and the harvest continued, but that is kind of the way 2021 has gone. It has been a year with too little rain and too many complications. But, in the end, the job got done.

LE MARS, Iowa — Harvest came early in Northwest Iowa.

Bryan Schroeder says his soybean harvest began Sept. 20 and wrapped up in October. He farms in Plymouth County.

ROWAN, Iowa — The sun was shining and the corn was dry coming out of the field in early October in this part of Wright County in North Central Iowa.

Kelly Leist was busy running the combine on this sunny day while his father, Roger, hauled grain. The two men, who farm together, both say it has been a decent harvest season so far and that yields have been better than they expected.

WASHINGTON, Iowa — An early October rain gave Jim Cuddeback time to sit in his office and think about harvest so far in 2021. Overall, he’s feeling good about it.

The Washington County farmer said rains have been few and far between to wrap up the 2021 growing season in Southeast Iowa, leading to a fast and furious harvest. And so far yields have held up to expectations.