Corn Harvest is Not Done

I was traveling over the last couple of days to the Mid-West.  I spent part of my time driving from Kansas City to Davenport, Iowa and then from there to Hannibal, Missouri and then back to Kansas City.

 While on this trip, I noticed that there was still a lot of corn that was not harvested.  Most of the farms that I saw with un-harvested corn appeared to be smaller farms since the combines were much older and only had a 4 or 6 row head.  With the weather delays, this does make sense to me since the newer larger combines can harvest a lot more acres in a day than the older machines. 

This seems to confirm the recent USDA report that indicated the corn harvest was only 88% complete.  This means that about 12% of the crop still needs to be harvested.

I am guessing that harvest will not get finished until sometime in early 2010.  I have a feeling this will go down as one of the latest harvests ever.