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Illinois Top US Soybean Producer In 2013

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Illinois was the country's leading producer of soybeans and second-largest corn producer last year.

The department said Friday that Illinois farmers harvested 462 million bushels of soybeans in 2013. That's a 20 percent increase over 2012.
 
The USDA says the state's corn production was 2.1 billion bushels. That was 63 percent more than 2012's drought-impacted crop and more than any state other than Iowa.

Farmers in Iowa harvested 2.16 billion bushels in 2013.

Illinois and Iowa are traditionally the country's top producers of both corn and soybeans.

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A chain harrow is a game changer

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Utilizing a rotational grazing method on our farmstead with our sheep helps to let the pasture/paddocks rest. We also just invested in a chain harrow to allow us to drag the paddocks our sheep just left to break up and spread their manure around, dethatch thicker grass areas, and to rough up bare dirt areas to all for a better seed to soil contact if we overseed that paddock. This was our first time really using the chain harrow besides initially testing it out. We are very impressed with the work it did and how and area that was majority dirt, could be roughed up before reseeding.

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