Cass County farmer Steve Turner spoke with Fox Weather about a powerful derecho that ripped through parts of Central and Southern Illinois on June 29. The storm followed weeks of severe drought conditions in several parts of the state. Turner told Fox, "We got those rains last week, and if we were talking today and I hadn’t got those rains on my non-irrigated ground - I’d be starting to look at some pretty significant yield losses. The subsoil is still pretty dry, but it bought us time for more rain. And if we get more rain, maybe by harvest time, we’ll find out that we’ll have some pretty good yields."
Read the full interview here.