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Illinois farmer loses 10 to 15 percent of corn to heavy rain
May 1, 2017, 17:30 PM
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Heavy weekend rain has damaged Illinois crops and put an end to fieldwork until the soil dries out.
“I’d say we probably had 6-7 inches on our farm,” said Scott County, Illinois farmer Jeff Hurrelbrink, while assessing damage from his pick-up. His corn has been in the ground about a week.
“Eighty percent of our corn is up where it washed down the hills and took some rows out,” Hurrelbrink told Brownfield Ag News Monday.
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