After getting through a six-inch rain in six hours, Illinois farmer Rob Shaffer is hopeful his soybeans will finish strong this month.

“Our soybeans are made in August for central Illinois where I’m at so if I get one or two more rains this month, we should have a pretty good bean crop,” he says.

He says his 2012 growing season was a good example of what can happen to soybeans in August.

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