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on what you see c & s yields being in your part of IL? i have read & heard a pretty big range and with the late plantings and following wx events, i find some of the high end yields to be hard to swallow unless they where very isolated?

thanks, JD

I've been pretty close to home for the last month, so I don't know how this will relate to Illinois. From what I've heard locally, bean yields were generally very good, but short of 'best ever.' I'd guess by 5 bu/A or more, for the most part. Corn harvest here has really just got underway in the last couple of weeks. Everyone's heard about the 'other guy's' high yields, but nobody I know is reaching within 10% of their best. I'd thought that we were really starting to realize a little drydown, but this week I've run into a few reports of moistures in the 30s yet--these fields were late planted, I know. Rationing of LP held back some corn harvest this week. Some contacts in southern Illinios report very good yields, but they also got held back by heavy rain in the last week. Nothing seems to point to record yields for either corn or beans.

Pro Farmer's week ending stuff always has a few yield reports included and they seem to vary a bunch across the main belt.

at another site i have read some real big yields from CIL, ECIL area, but then some others from those areas not so high?

if ILnh could give us a update from SIL we'd have a handle on that area, guess he's off vacationing in some tropical spot by now though? JD