WAVERLY, Mo. — On a warm late-September day in Lafayette County, Greg Drunert was harvesting a field of corn. So far in his West Central Missouri area, harvest conditions had been “pretty dry,” Drunert said.

“We didn’t have but three or four days that we couldn’t be in the field,” he said.

HIGH HILL, Mo. — As Montgomery County farmer Terry Meyer worked his way through harvest, the yield monitor was telling the story of a good crop year.

Harvesting on two sides of a highway, one side was yielding 203 bushels per acre and the other side was at 198. There were, of course, better and worse spots within them. A few of his fields were pushing up around 250 to 270 bu./acre.

SKIDMORE, Mo. — In northwest Missouri, Nodaway County farmer Jason Hull said the corn won’t be the best ever, but it’s still a good crop.

“Most of the corn yields have been above average,” he said. “They’re certainly not record breaking, but they’re above average.”

MALTA BEND, Mo. — As Steve Graver was harvesting corn on his Saline County farm, it was running about 15 and a half percent moisture. Most farmers in his area had been waiting for the corn to dry enough before harvest.

“With the lower prices, everybody lets it dry down in the field,” he said.

TINA, Mo. — Across the highway from the Tina-Avalon School, next to the gentle rise the locals call Stokes Mound, Livingston County farmer Dale Davenport was at work harvesting a field of corn.

It was a sunny afternoon in early October, and Davenport gradually worked across the field in his combine, with a pickup truck and two grain trucks parked at the edge of the field.

PALMYRA, Mo. — In Northeast Missouri, Marion County farmer Brent Hoerr was busy harvesting a field in the Mississippi River bottom on Oct. 12. He’d been switching back and forth between corn and soybeans as fields got ready to go.

“Some of them (farmers in the area) are getting close to done on corn,” he said.