Wednesday, August 27, 2008 East Central Illinois

When it comes to rain, it's feast or famine on Illinois farms

By Amy F. Reiter
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:05 AM CDT

RANTOUL – Mother Nature can throw some crazy curveballs.

Several counties to the west of Steve Gordon's plots of corn and soybeans, other people's corn and beans are buried deep underwater. They are destroyed – all those millions of tender, inch-high soy plants; foot-high stalks of corn that were just about ready to shoot upward.

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