it was a short one, but basically across 34 to 74 down to Bloomington, IL...........saw everything from water on fields with yellow stunted corn...........to some good looking corn.............to some really short recently planted corn...........to freshly planted fields..........to fields being planted.............to fields that looked like they were getting ready to do something.............to fields that had not been touched............to fields being spotted in with replant...............
a lot to take in with that short distance............especailly given it was June 3rd..............seems like from about Peoria on to Bloomington is were I saw a lot of short corn, recently planted fields, planters still rolling, replant, and bare fields..........
don't know how big of an area that represents............but its June 4th now...........just more evidence of what I have been thinking.........
not sure if I have put this out here on this site yet.........but IMO we could very well have a realatively large area of the cornbelt suffer from heat and lack of rain, a drought if you will.............I am sure some remember the summer of 2005 and summer of 2008.........IMO it could be a blend of that scenerio..........seemed like both springs had some temp extremes in May with late frost of freezes...........then kind of a wet spell that lasted into the second week of June............then BAM............rains slowed down some or stopped and timely was key..............I know not all the corn belt has those conditions, just my 2 cents..............
threw in a couple photos of the river last weekend............river still above flood stage by a foot or so............seems like since 2008 it never gets down much below flood stage very long and any major event pops it right back to 15-17 ft.............photos are a little blurry, camera phone...........think any of its $7 corn..........
