Planting is well underway in west central Illinois.

Shane Gray, who farms in Sangamon and Morgan counties, tells Brownfield they’ve been in the field since April 12th.

“As soon as things dried up, everybody’s going like crazy, sun up to sun down and nonstop.”  He says, “So, I’m kind of secretly hoping for maybe a little bit of a rain so we can take a break.”

He says field conditions have been very good, except for fields impacted by winter annual weeds.

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