Better weather this week has helped a southwestern Illinois farmer get started planting.

Randolph County farmer Rich Guebert Jr. spoke with Brownfield while he was filling the planter Wednesday…

“We got started putting some corn in the ground yesterday.”  He says, “The wind has just been terrible here for spraying or putting on dry fertilizer, but planters can still keep moving, so a lot of beans going in the ground, lot of corn going in the ground.”

He says they missed the rain that was forecast earlier this week which means they can keep working.

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