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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)-- Illinois soybean and corn levels are at their lowest levels in four decades because of the state's record rainfall, according to the Illinois Agriculture Department's statistics.
There hasn't been this small of a percentage corn crop since 1967, according to the statistics.
By the fourth week of October back then, just 11 percent of Illinois' corn crop had been harvested. Now, that figure is 14 percent.
Just 33 percent of the state's soybean crop has been brought in. The state's records don't ever show the harvest so slow.
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