It is hard to imagine having another year similar to or worse than 2008, but it is starting to look that way. As of the weekly planting report the whole state of Illinois is only 10% planted. That number might go up this next week but not by much. There was only one day for fieldwork this week. The storms that we received last night and yesterday brought us 1-2.5 inches of rain on our farms. That is not good considering many farms needed a week without rain to be fit to plant before it rained. As of right now we are about 25% done with our corn planting. We have planted the driest fields so the ones we have left will need extra time to dry out. There is a drier forecast for next week which we will need if we want to plant our corn in May.
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