A pair of Illinois farmers say the dry weather continues to push harvest pace. John Klemm, who raises corn, soybeans, and cattle in DeWitt County in the central part of the state, says his harvest is complete. “Thirty-two days start to finish and thirty of those days we were working, and we just went hard […]
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