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How changing weather patterns can affect Illinois farming
advantagenews ^ | 06/03/2025 | Kevin Bessler

Posted on 06/03/2025 9:18:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Illinois’ unpredictable weather is throwing a curveball to the state’s farmers.

Some areas of the state are significantly behind in rainfall and early indications are that the conditions will persist this summer.

“It has just been super dry from Springfield and Peoria up to Rockford and especially over the Chicago area we have had half of our normal rain, a third of our normal rain,” said CBS Chicago meteorologist David Yeomans during an Illinois Soybean Association webinar.

According to the latest crop progress and condition report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly a fifth of farmers who responded said their topsoil is short of moisture.

Yeomans said a combination of factors led to an unusual weather event on May 16.

“That dry soil combined with an incredible straight-line wind gust from a thunderstorm led to a remarkable dust storm, including in the Chicago area, but I know it was even worse down on many of your farms,” said Yeomans. “This was a full blown haboob and usually happens in Saudi Arabia, or in Arizona and Texas in the U.S.”

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TOPICS: Local News; Science; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: affect; changing; farming; how; illinois; patterns; weather
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Is this climate change? Global warming or cooling? I can't keep up.
1 posted on 06/03/2025 9:18:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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“Illinois’ unpredictable weather is throwing a curveball to the state’s farmers.”

Just like it has since the last Ice Age retreated?


2 posted on 06/03/2025 9:23:49 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because weather patterns have never changed in Illinois.........


3 posted on 06/03/2025 9:36:17 AM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Evidently, the author has never heard of the Farmers Almanac that has tried to predict crop yields for decades. That said, Illinois doesn’t have very serious drought conditions yet. The state has areas of no drought, dry conditions and moderate drought. This is nothing new for midwest farmers..


4 posted on 06/03/2025 9:36:43 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I saw no mention of “climate change”. Good for them.


5 posted on 06/03/2025 9:41:27 AM PDT by Conservet (Look back to go forward.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Check on the BS with US Drought Monitor. Just a glance would suggest Illinois conditions are due to random, localized probability.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx


6 posted on 06/03/2025 9:43:36 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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They’re about to get rain late tonight and into tomorrow.


7 posted on 06/03/2025 9:46:47 AM PDT by packagingguy
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What a load of Barbra Streisand. Here is the link to the drought monitor map for Illinois. I can’t get it to post cuz I am a numbskull. It is either abnormally dry or the slight beginnings of drought, but only for the northern half of the state.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?IL

8 posted on 06/03/2025 9:47:22 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Weather always changes, and long-term patterns are difficult to predict and to attribute.


9 posted on 06/03/2025 9:48:11 AM PDT by Swirl
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The earth doing what it does because it doesn’t give a crap about anybody us. Bring back pangea!


10 posted on 06/03/2025 9:53:12 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: EVO X

It is a little dry here in the Rockford area. We do need more rain, I just wish it wouldn’t take so long to get out of the 40s and 50s every year. It’s warmer NOW. I seem to remember the 1960s being warmer in April and May than it has been in recent years.


11 posted on 06/03/2025 10:34:06 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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I just looked the radar- we have storms a-comin in very soon…


12 posted on 06/03/2025 10:36:32 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115

I live in downstate Illinois away from Lake Michigan. Not sure about Rockford, but my experience is if you live near the lake temperatures can lag about a month behind from downstate locations. I went to boot camp way back in the day at Great Lakes Naval training center and froze my rear end off even at the beginning of May..


13 posted on 06/03/2025 10:54:41 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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That said, Illinois doesn’t have very serious drought conditions yet.

I lived in the Rockford area for 15 years. My wife gardened extensively when we were in nearby Ogle County. The soil is great. The water table is high. Things want to grow there.

Unfortunately one of the things that grew nearby was Chicago.
14 posted on 06/03/2025 11:01:26 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: rktman
Bring back pangea!

Back in ancient times, whole continents knew how to cuddle. Now the best we can do is dogs and cats, living together:


15 posted on 06/03/2025 11:10:04 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Just have Fat A$$ Pritzker do a "rain dance" and all will be fixed... yeah, that's the ticket!


16 posted on 06/03/2025 11:58:20 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

haha


17 posted on 06/03/2025 11:59:23 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Such geniuses


18 posted on 06/03/2025 12:02:51 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Dr. Sivana
Unfortunately one of the things that grew nearby was Chicago.

Double LOL....

19 posted on 06/03/2025 12:10:15 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: EVO X

We don’t get lake effect winds or snow here, I just remember from my youth we were already enjoying the outdoors a lot earlier than we do now.


20 posted on 06/03/2025 2:42:15 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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