
Dane Hunter
IL Extension
dhunter3@illinois.edu

Dane Hunter
IL Extension
dhunter3@illinois.edu
DANE HUNTER UPDATES
Last weekend, we accumulated a little over 3″ of rainfall from several storms. Harvest had just kicked off last week, only to come to a halt while the surface soil dries back out. Unfortunately, this rain came a few weeks too late to help most of our crop. Most of the corn and early beans are already either dead or well into senescence and will not benefit. I pulled a couple of soybean plants that will be ready to harvest in a week or so, and while they had a decent number of pods, quite a few of them were completely flat. There are some double-crop and late-planted beans that are just starting to tinge yellow; they might benefit from the late moisture. Time will tell.