Mother Nature brought a lousy October to area farmers, but the weather improved for the first half of November. Was it enough to help? We checked in with Pecatonica farmer Larry Larson who was just starting his harvest when we last spoke to him on October 19th.

"The soybean harvest started out about the 20th of October, I can't remember when you were here last, but in October we seemed to lose most of the month. My recollection is that it rained like 22 days in October and we didn't get a whole lot done." says Larson.

Larson says his soybeans are all in, but the quality of the crop is not good. He has harvested 10% of his corn crop, but that still leaves 900 acres to go. Eric Lenning with the National Weather Service says our recent stretch of dry weather has helped, but it can not make up for lost time.

"The month of October was not kind to farmers. We unfortunately had a lot of wet weather a lot of cool temperatures and those two together made it very tough to get the crops out of the field." says Lenning.

Last month Larson said he wouldn't complain if he got the soybeans in before the snow. With that task completed he says he can start complaining about bringing in the corn.

"A month ago we were very tense. Today we are just working hard." adds Larson.

Larson says it is important to bring the corn in before winter because heavy snow can break the corn stalks and ruin an entire harvest. Because of October's bad weather, he estimates many farmers will not finish their harvests until January.