{"id":1069,"date":"2014-10-15T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:16:40","slug":"illinois-farmers-seeing-great-yields-due-to-near-perfect-growing-season-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/10\/illinois-farmers-seeing-great-yields-due-to-near-perfect-growing-season-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois farmers seeing great yields due to near-perfect growing season conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb reports that Illinois farmers are seeing what could be their best yields ever on corn this year, in a story <a title=\"Illinois corn yields\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/harvest-report-illinois-farmers-seeing-best-yields-ever\/?smartid=&amp;spMailingID=47199113&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=541988075&amp;spReportId=NTQxOTg4MDc1S0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The farmers say that the combination of timely rains with a relatively cool summer has led to great production by their corn plants, even though the crops are about a week behind normal. \u00a0Other areas of the Midwest are also <a title=\"Wet conditions slow corn harvest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/weather-woes-wet-in-the-corn-belt-dry-in-brazil\/?smartid=&amp;spMailingID=47199113&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=541988075&amp;spReportId=NTQxOTg4MDc1S0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> to have excellent yields, although cool and wet conditions have set back harvest in some areas. \u00a0Unfortunately for farmers, the high yields of corn this year have depressed crop prices significantly, reducing farmers&#8217; returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgWeb reports that Illinois farmers are seeing what could be their best yields ever on corn this year, in a story here. \u00a0The farmers say that the combination of timely rains with a relatively cool summer has led to great production by their corn plants, even though the crops are about a week behind normal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22838,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/22838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}