As of June 3, we have had a productive week. Scattered showers moved through the area to the west June 1. Some areas received up to 0.5 inches, which led to another delay in replanting. Wheat is turning fast, nitrogen…
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Illinois Farm Bureau News
June 6, 2026
Weather has really improved and crops are finally starting to actually look good. Replant is done for the last time and post herbicides and sidedressing are well underway. My wheat is starting to turn but it’s hard to say when…
June 6, 2026
Summer has arrived. With warm temperatures and some tiles running crops are looking better. Early-planted cornfields look good with a deep green color and are tall enough to cover up the holes or ditches. Soybeans are getting sprayed but are…
June 6, 2026
We finished planting last week, and not under ideal conditions. We pushed the envelope because of recent forecasts that called for little or no rain but we received much more. I know Nokomis received 2 inches and we only had…
June 6, 2026
We’ve been out of the field since my last report May 16. In that report I said I hoped we would get a rain measured in tenths, not inches. That night we got 23-tenths so guess I should have been…
June 6, 2026
It was a dry week. It hasn’t rained since May 24. Our farms ranged from 2.48 to 2.97 inches of rainfall for the month of May, which was the driest since February. On the June 4 release of the U.S.…