Harvest falling behind
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It's no secret that mother nature has not been cooperating with farmers across the Tri-States.
And with more rain on its way, we checked to see how much this wet weather will affect farmers.
Here's what we found on for this KHQA Fact Finder Report.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service is forecasting Illinois farmers will harvest 2.11 billion bushels of corn this year, that's down from 2.13 billion last year.
Forecasts are showing 411 million bushels of soybeans, down from 428 million last year.
University of Illinois Extension crop systems educator Mike Roegge says in a good year some farmers would already be done harvesting, but this year many have not even been able to start.
"It looks like, from early reports, we've got a pretty good harvest set up, we've just got to be able to harvest it. When will that happen? Well it's the middle of October, not much has happened yet. We'll have to wait and see what the weather forecast holds, but for all purposes, it doesn't look all that good, so it's going to be a lengthy harvest, it's going to be a frustrating harvest," said Roegge.
Roegge says Missouri and Iowa are just as wet as Illinois and are dealing with the same problems.
But an AP news wire says it's been a bumper year for nearly every crop in Missouri. The federal Agricultural Statistics office says that corn, soybeans, rice, cotton and hay all have abundant yields this year.
