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Ohio’s harvest drags on

It’s shaping up to be a challenging end to the 2014 corn and soybean harvest, with heavy snow and wet fields causing the latest slowdown.

According to the Ohio field office of the National Ag Statistics Service (NASS), corn harvest advanced six points from the previous week, while soybean harvest gained only two points.

As of Sunday, November 23, corn harvest was 87 percent complete, on pace with the 5-year average. Soybean harvest at 95 percent complete, is four points behind the 5-year average of 99 percent.

81 percent of the state’s winter wheat crop is in fair-to-good condition.