Crop conditions have varied across Illinois following a dry June and scattered rainfall in July.
Southwest Illinois farmer Nick Harre of Nashville tells Brownfield crops went over a month with no rain, and when moisture returned a couple weeks ago it came at the expense of severe wind and hail.
“Our earliest corn planted the beginning of April has tasseled and it’s had its fungicide application. We’ll get grain out of it, but I certainly don’t think it will reach its maximum yield just because such a long period of its life thus far as has been drought stricken.”
But he says winter wheat harvest wrapped up in late June and that same drought boosted those yields.
