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By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – Warm and wet were the watchwords of last week in the farm fields of Illinois, according to the USDA crop report.
USDA state statistician Mark Schleusener says the average rainfall was about an inch and a quarter, which is about a quarter inch above normal. The average temperature of 77 was about a degree warmer than normal.
Corn’s 89 percent silked, 22 percent in the dough stage and 74 percent rated good to excellent. Soybeans are 67 percent blooming, 36 percent setting pods and 76 percent good to excellent.
Schleusener says farmers should be receiving surveys for the August 12 forecast report.
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