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Illinois planting could go to third round
May 22, 2017, 17:30 PM
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East Central Illinois farmer Jeremy Wolf does not anticipate being able to do field work for much of this week, but he’s done plenty to this point.
“We’ve replanted probably 25 percent of our corn crop and 50 percent of the beans we had in the ground,” Wolf told Brownfield Ag News Monday.
Wolf was hoping that planting soybeans the third week in April would improve yields, but “a perfect storm” of wet weather and seedling blight would have resulted in just the opposite.
Continue reading Illinois planting could go to third round at Brownfield Ag News.
