I-80 Harvest Tour: Illinois

Illinois farmers have faced their share of challenges this growing season. Much of the state received a deluge of rain in the heat of planting.

Indiana soybeans.
Indiana soybeans.
(Betsy Jibben)

Illinois farmers have faced their share of challenges this growing season. Much of the state received a deluge of rain in the heat of planting.

Did that create some problems which carried into harvest?

AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben visits Joel Barickman from Ancona, Ill. and Joe Zumwalt in Warsaw, Ill. to find out what they see in the fields this harvest.

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