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Weather Slowed Plating, but Helped Growing
(IRN)-On Illinois farms, the weather last week was bad for planting, but good for growing.

Corn planting advanced from 90 to 94 percent, and soybeans from 47 to 59 percent, according to the weekly USDA crop progress report.

But Crop statistician Brad Schwab says the crops in the ground enjoyed the weather. "The growing conditions were favorable. There's plenty of moisture out there, and the temperatures were only about 1½ degrees below normal, so the corn crop that's up, the soybeans that are up made good progress as far as the growth and their height," he said.

Soybeans went from 12 percent to 30 percent emerged, corn from 56 to 80 percent, and the average corn height is five inches. Half the state has surplus moisture, though, and some corn will not be planted.

As for the remaining un-planted acres intended for corn, it's getting late and a lot of fields are still too wet to plant. Schwab says farmers may collect on prevented crop insurance and roll the dice with late-June soybeans.

Statewide, 51 percent of fields have adequate moisture, and 49 percent have surplus moisture.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
06 01 11 by Newsroom
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