Rain continues to delay planting for southern Illinois farmer

While eighty-degree temperatures over the weekend warmed up southern Illinois soils, frequent rains are still causing planting delays.

For some farmers in the region, including Lance Panzer of Waltonville, the answer to how much planting they have done is, “None whatsoever.”

He tells Brownfield their tillage equipment and planters are hooked up and ready to roll, but “Just about the time we are ready to go, every five days it seems to rain again and that’s how it has been all spring.

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