STREATOR – Farmers are rushing to get crops in the ground, though not the plant they were hoping for. By this time last year fields in LaSalle County were budding with corn stalks, but after a historic stretch of rainfall this season, some farmers are left with ponds. According to LaSalle County Farm Bureau President David Isermann, he’s filed prevent plant on a couple of acres east of Streator. Isermann says many farmers in northern LaSalle County have done the same, now moving quickly to get beans in the ground. All farmers can hope for is a perfect growing season for soybeans; a warm fall and a late frost. According to the USDA only half of 70 percent of corn planted has emerged and half of Illinois farmers have already planted soybeans.
