The 2011 crop season has already been quite eventful.  When farming in northern Illinois, the goal is to start planting by April 15th.  Due to an unusually cold and wet spring, we were not able to get out in the fields until May 1st. Even then, we had to carefully determine which farms to plant, as they were not all dried out. Yields are threatened by the late planting start which means farm revenue is already affected even before planting is complete. Read more...