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Insect trapping season is here!  We are still looking for cooperators to monitor both black cutworm and true armyworm traps in April and May. These early spring storms have already brought black cutworm moths north. We’d love to get some more traps out and are especially needing cooperators in southern and northern Illinois. Traps and lures are provided.

Requirements for trapping:

• Set up traps provided.
• Check traps regularly. Ideally, we’d like traps to be checked every other day to help accurately identify significant moth flights,

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Here you will find links to the presentations made during the March 4, 2025 All Day Ag Outlook held at the Beef House in Covington, Indiana. It included members of the University of Illinois farmdoc team, on air analysts with WILLAg.org, and others.
click to hear the presentations from the March 4, 2025 conference

• Grain Market Fundamentals with Joe Janzen, U of Illinois
• South America Production Update with Joana Colussi,

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University of Illinois Agricultural Economist Joe Janzen spoke at WILLAg.org’s 35th annual All Day Ag Outlook at the Beef House in Covington, Indiana Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The farmdoc team member outlined the fundamentals of the current corn and soybean markets. You will find more presentations from the ADAO next week on the WILLAg.org website.…

If we were to look at the records of planting date and weather from 2024 without knowing the yields, we might not guess that corn yield beat and soybean tied previous yield records for Illinois. Here, we’ll take a quick look at the 2024 growing season, and consider whether we might apply lessons from it as we manage crops in 2025.
Growing season weather and crop conditions
Illinois weather was on its usual rollercoaster in 2024: February was dry,…