Crop Report
Region 5 | May 22, 2025 | ILLINOIS
Doug Gucker
dgucker@illinois.edu

Caption: Hail damaged soybeans looking bad compared to neighboring undamaged fields.

Caption: Hail damaged corn fields looking bad compared to neighboring undamaged fields.
SYNOPSIS
It has been quite a week weather-wise. May 16 severe storms caused a Haboob that wind-whipped crops across east-central Illinois. May 20 severe storms brought hail in parts of the area. Currently, all the corn crop has its growing point below ground, so the hail-damaged crop should recover well. Soybeans, on the other hand, may be a different story especially if hail cut the plants off below the cotyledons.
Nearly all cropland is planted with crops stages varying from just emerging to V4 almost V5 stage corn and soybeans nearly at the V3 stage of 3 fully developed trifoliate leaves.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBES CURRENT CONDITIONS IN THIS COUNTY?
Moderately Wet (soil is damp, standing water may be present in low areas, water bodies are full)