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Friday, August 12, 2011

Southern Illinois Crop Report

By Nathan Rahe - SIU Graduate Student in Agriculture

Travelling from Murphysboro to Chester I am seeing lots of scorched corn and lots of small ears along Route 3.  Chester to Waterloo does not look great either.  Soybeans do not look as bad as corn, but they do not look good.  Corn leaves near the family farm at Valmeyer look stripped, possibly caused by hail.  The corn with problems is patchy.  It is interesting that you see some that looks fine and some just down the road is horrible. 

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