Corn and soybean planting has been weeks behind schedule across Iowa this season. Farmers have been planting and replanting crops, harvesting hay, spraying and applying nitrogen recently. Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says it has been a challenging year for Iowa’s farmers, “The weather has created great, great challenges in terms of getting the crop in the ground this year. We now have looked back over the last 12 months, it’s the wettest 12 months on record. And that goes back, the records go back to the late 1800s, so this is a historic time in terms of precipitation. That has then created historic delays in planting.” He said soybeans were about three weeks behind average for planting. And according to the USDA, corn is about two weeks behind the five-year average for emergence. Iowa’s State Climatologist Justin Glisan says there’s been unseasonably cool temperatures in Iowa the past couple of weeks. There’s a chance of storms Thursday, followed by a mostly sunny weekend in the KCII-listening area.