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Illinois planting could go to third round

East Central Illinois farmer Jeremy Wolf does not anticipate being able to do field work for much of this week, but he’s done plenty to this point.

“We’ve replanted probably 25 percent of our corn crop and 50 percent of the beans we had in the ground,” Wolf told Brownfield Ag News Monday.

Wolf was hoping that planting soybeans the third week in April would improve yields, but “a perfect storm” of wet weather and seedling blight would have resulted in just the opposite.

“(There were) just not enough plants there to go forward with those stands,” he said.

There’s time to plant or replant soybeans, according to Wolf, but with much of this week being too wet to plant, corn might be a different story.

“At some point I think guys really have to weigh switching back over to beans if they haven’t put inputs into the field,” said Wolf.  “We’re just running out of days for corn.”

Some of what Wolf replanted was done just before more rain, so he says it’s possible he’ll be planting the same ground for the third time.

Photo courtesy of Jeremy Wolf

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