Illinois corn harvest was at 6% as of Sunday, compared to the five-year average of 16% at this point in the season, according to the USDA.

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois farmers have begun the 2021 corn harvest. One percent of this year’s crop had been harvested as of Sunday, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Illinois ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ corn harvest is hitting the final 20 percent, while Iowa farmers have harvested the fewest soybeans at this date in more than 30 years.

Anything new to talk about is good, Beck figured. Farmers waiting in long lines to unload corn are out of conversation topics as harvest season in the country's No. 2 corn-producing state drags on ...

According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Illinois corn harvest at the end of Oct. was 17 percentage points behind the prior year, and 11 percentage points behind the five ...

Farmers across Illinois, especially in the rural communities north of Interstate 80, have yet to harvest much of the corn and soybeans that are the lifeblood of the state’s agricultural economy.

Like many Illinois growers beset by recent harvest-halting rains that have turned their fields into expanses of mud, Mark Reichert spent yet another day Tuesday relegated to odd jobs, sanding away ...

Just three of the 11 U.S. Crop Watch soybean fields still await harvest, but those should be finished early this week as most producers’ harvest paces are ahead of normal.

Illinois’s corn crop is forecast to come in more than 14% lower than last year, in line with the most recent federal projections, according to an average of survey results collected by scouts on ...

Illinois corn is maturing so quickly this summer that one University of Illinois crop expert expects an early harvest, with combines in some fields by Labor Day.

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ 2020 corn harvest has begun. As of Sunday, 2 percent of corn in Illinois has been harvested according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Illinois Crop Progress ...