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Excess Moisture Slowing Planting
(IRN)-Everywhere in Illinois, it's been too wet for farmers to work. That's the gist of the latest crop progress report from the USDA in Illinois.

Ten percent of the state's corn crop has been planted, unchanged from a week ago. But Brad Schwab, head of the Illinois field office for the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, says there is no need to worry.

"In 2009 (at this time) we were at 4.7 percent. The point is: we're certainly not in a panic situation; we just need the weather to turn around and be cooperative."

Schwab says there have been 23 times since 1923 the progress has been this slow at this point of the season.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
05 02 11 by Newsroom
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