Sunny skies beckoned combines into corn and soybean fields all across Iowa last week as farmers worked feverishly to make up for lost time following two weeks of rain delays.

“We’re getting after it, finally,” said Kipp Fehr of Mallard. “There are a lot of beans coming out this week.”

Fehr said he finished combining his soybean crop and had almost 50 percent of his corn crop harvested by late last week, making good progress but still way behind last year’s...