Crops are looking good. Soybean fields are not showing any signs of disease symptoms in the upper soybean canopy. Corn is advancing to the dough stage in early-planted fields.The majority of central and eastern portions of Illinois have had below normal rainfall for the first 29 days of July, as evidenced by the brown grass in pastures, lawns, and roadsides.
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