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* Tools to Manage Tar Spot
* Illinois Soft Red Winter Wheat Harvest & Quality
* Corn and Soybean Update
* WILLAg Closing Market Report and Commodity Week

The Closing Market Report podcast player should open to the spot where the Illinois Field Crops discussion begins, or about six minutes into the program.
Tools to Manage Tar Spot
There is a new online tool farmers and retailers may use to help track,…

Kathryn Seebruck – Commercial Agriculture Educator
Winnebago County
Soil Conditions: Mildly Dry (soil is drier than normal, plant growth may have slowed)
Across much of the area, there are entire fields of soybeans exhibiting cupping. The widespread nature of the symptom could point to environmental stress as the cause, potentially from hot and dry conditions over the past week and a half. Many soybean fields are still not canopied.
Corn has greatly increased in height recently due to the accumulation of over 240 GDDs over the past week and a half.…

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WILLAg.org radio programming for the work week ending June 27, 2025
Commodity Week can be heard in the 2 o’clock hour central time on WILL AM580 or you may subscribe to it using the links in the player below. This week the panelists include Naomi Blohm from TotalFarmMarketing.com and Jim McCormick of AgMarket.net.

The Closing Market Report airs at 2:06 p.m. central daily on WILL AM580. It, too, is a podcast. Subscribe using the link in the player.…

Soybean Phytophthora root, crown, and stem rot is one of the most significant diseases affecting soybean production worldwide. Multiple species of Phytophthora, a group of related soilborne pathogens, can infect soybean and cause primarily root rots while Phytophthora sojae causes root, crown, and stem rot, resulting in more severe symptoms and increased yield loss. In the state of Illinois, it ranks among the top yield-reducing diseases, following white mold and soybean cyst nematode (SCN).…