Eastern, IL

Friday morning we headed east on Route 16 toward Paris.  We turned north at Paris and drove through the Eastern Illinois counties and then turned toward Dekalb.  We did not see any corn even close to harvest. Some of the corn is running out of Nitrogen due to wetness.  That is not to say we did not see some good looking corn.  Soybeans are looking much better than the corn in general. Of course they do not have nitrogen issues and stands are more even since the beans were planted later.  Some areas are getting stressed by the dry weather, but sany soils around Watseka did not look too bad.  Showers have been spotty for a about the last month.