As drought plagues many Midwestern fields, a southeastern Illinois farmer is nestled in a sweet spot for crop conditions.
Doug Winter of Mill Shoals tells Brownfield they’ve had perfect greenhouse conditions this month, receiving up to an inch of rain each week.
“Some of the fields we have been scouting look like they have recovered from the late planting, and that dry stretch in June doesn’t seem to have had much of an adverse effect on them.