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Illinois corn maturing ahead of pace – Brownfield Ag News
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Illinois corn maturing ahead of pace
The USDA says the Illinois corn crop is maturing ahead of pace.
Gallatin County farmer Jeff Scates says his early harvest results are below expectations.
“Not quite as good as we had hoped for on the corn front.” He says, “We also have cut some beans and we’re kind of up and down a little bit there too. They’ve tended to be drier as well as we get into them.”
The latest weekly crop progress and condition report shows 24% of the corn crop is mature, 13% ahead of normal. Scates tells Brownfield moisture would still help the late planted crops.
“June corn still has a lot of green in it.” He says, “It still has a lot of growing to do, at least filling out the kernels. It would definitely help that out a lot.”
The corn crop remains in good condition with 71% rated good to excellent. Seventy percent is dented compared to 63% normally.
Sixty eight percent of soybeans are in good to excellent condition and 14% are dropping leaves, which is 11% ahead of average.
Pasture conditions are 52% good to excellent.
Thirty one percent of Illinois topsoil moistures are rated short or very short, while only 2% are rated surplus.
Illinois
Multiple people shot in Centralia, Illinois: REPORT
CENTRALIA, Ill. – An investigation is underway after multiple people were shot Sunday in Centralia, Illinois, according to a report from WFCN News in southern Illinois.
FOX 2 has confirmed the Illinois State Police is investigating a shooting and taking over the investigation, but ISP could not confirm many further details as of 9 p.m. Sunday.
“The investigation is in its infancy and to protect the integrity of the investigation, no additional details will be released at this time,” ISP said in a statement to FOX 2.
According to WFCN News, the shooting happened around 5 p.m. near the 900 block of East Kell Street in Centralia. Multiple law enforcement agencies have since responded to scene and multiple victims are hospitalized, according to the report.
It’s unclear how many people may have been injured and what led up to the shooting.
Centralia, Illinois is about 70 miles, or just over an hour, east of St. Louis.
This is a developing story. FOX 2 will update as more information becomes available.
Illinois
Weather service assessing damage across Iowa, Illinois and Missouri
The National Weather Service has teams of storm surveryors in the field April 18 investigating several reports of severe storms and tornado touch downs across eastern Iowa, northwest Illinois and northeast Missouri.
According to the weather service’s website, windgusts of up to 60 to 70 mph along with teacup-sized hail and several tornadoes were reported April 17.
Many homes and outbuildings were damaged, trees were uprooted and power lines were downed in Lena, Illinois, where the most significant damage occurred, the site pointed out.
Very strong winds also were reported near Washington, Iowa, and Colmar, Illinois, where several outbuildings and grain bins were destroyed.
The weather service received reports of confirmed and possible tornadoes in the areas of Lena, Pecatonica, Shirland, Rockton, Roscoe and Capron.
The teams will be assessing damage this weekend into next week along with county emergency management teams to determine what types of storms occurred and their paths.
Dozens of power outages were reported, as well.
As of the afternoon of April 18, ComEd was reporting 85 active power outages across northern Illinois, down from 241 on April 17, and 6,751 customers affected, down from more than 18,000.
The bulk of those outages and the most customers impacted are concentrated in Jo Daviess and Stephenson counties.
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5 tornadoes confirmed in Illinois from Friday’s storms
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