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Crop Report: Wet conditions slow fieldwork across La Salle County · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Crop report Wet conditions slow field work across LaSalle County
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  Speaker 1: written by Shaw Local News Network. This article is being
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  Speaker 1: read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlet.
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  Speaker 1: Farmers across LaSalle County are racing against moisture and heat
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  Speaker 1: as the growing season hits a critical stretch. Rain totals
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  Speaker 1: for the week of June twenty second, twenty eight ranged
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  Speaker 1: from zero point two inches in Serena to two point
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  Speaker 1: one inches near Rutland, leaving some fields too wet to
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  Speaker 1: work and others struggling with drainage problems. David Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Serena said the drier conditions late in the week allowed
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  Speaker 1: herbicide applications to soybeans and hay cutting to resume. By
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  Speaker 1: the time you read this, we will be in some
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  Speaker 1: sweltering heat and humidity, which the corn will use to
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  Speaker 1: grow quickly in height, Hall said. In Marseille, David Meyer
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  Speaker 1: reported that cooler temperatures and cloud cover slowed field farmers
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  Speaker 1: sprayed soybeans over the weekend before corn grew too tall,
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  Speaker 1: though some use drop nozzles to reach below the canopy.
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  Speaker 1: Meyer's wheat is about ten days from harvest, and hay
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  Speaker 1: cutting resumed to beat forecasted rain expected around the fourth
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  Speaker 1: of July. Ken Bernard of grand Ridge received one point
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  Speaker 1: six inches of rain in twenty to thirty minutes Wednesday night,
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  Speaker 1: refilling ponds and creating drainage problems. The corn looks good
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  Speaker 1: where there is good drainage, but in the areas without
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  Speaker 1: good drainage it is yellow and stunted. Bernard said weeds
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  Speaker 1: are thriving in wet conditions. Jeffrey Jansen, near Rutland reported
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  Speaker 1: two point one inches of rain, but said fields are
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  Speaker 1: finally drying out. Some soybeans are being sprayed in select fields.
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  Speaker 1: Japanese beetles have appeared, but are not yet a concern.
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  Speaker 1: Rainfall Serena zero point two inches, Marseille zero point three,
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  Speaker 1: grand Ridge one point six inches, Rutland two point one inches.