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Some Midwest farmers resume harvest

After watching rain for part of the past week, Midwest farmers got some weather relief allowing them back into the fields to harvest.  Marshall, Illinois farmer Don Guinnip resumed corn shelling Friday.

“The soil is soft, we’re making a few tracks, but we’re getting through the field,” Guinnip told Brownfield Ag News on Friday.  “This particular field of corn is [yielding] a little over 200 bushels [to the acre], so exceptionally good yields this year.”

Guinnip is confident about making headway in the next week or so.

“The forecast here that I see is a week of pretty good weather, so we’re hoping to shell corn here for two or three days until the bean fields get solid and then hopefully the first of next week we get in the beans,” he said.

The Illinois corn crop is projected to break records at 2.3 billion bushels this fall and the latest guess is that the soybean crop will be more than 551 million bushels.