FLORA, Ill. — Planting was wet. Harvest was dry. Corn is good.

That pretty well sums up the season for Mike Kitley, who farms in Clay County.

STANFORD, Ill. — The Loeffler family in McLean County had some of the first combines in cornfields in central Illinois, harvesting on Sept. 12.

Two weeks later they had harvested 2,000 acres of corn and started soybeans.

OGDEN, Ill. — In areas where very little rain fell this summer, some farmers started this season’s harvest hoping for the best but expecting the worse.

“For the weather we’ve had this year, the yields aren’t bad,” said Stan Harper in eastern Illinois.

NASHVILLE, Ill. — Chris Kollmann started shelling corn in the last week of September. Three weeks later he still had a smile on his face.

Like many farmers in the region, he battled a wet spring and suffered planting delays. Then rains didn’t always come when they were needed.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. — Randy Browning has found few reasons to complain this harvest season.

The Franklin County farmer is more than pleased with his corn and soybean yields. Harvest began in mid-September and should be complete by around the end of October.

KINSMAN, Ill. — Unlike some of farmers not far away, Nick Baudino was happy to see better-

than-average yields during harvest this year in Grundy County in Northeast Illinois.

ANNAWAN, Ill. — This time of year it is easy to catch three generations of the Verbeck family together in the fields in Henry County in Northwest Illinois.

Robbie is navigating the combine. Often his dad Dwaine, who is 75, is at his side with the grain cart, and Robbie’s son Zach, who just graduated high school, is driving the semi-truck.

SHIPMAN, Ill. — Harvest 2022 is shaping up to be a positive thing for Adam Gwillim.

“It looks good,” said Gwillim, who farms in Macoupin County, Illinois. “Corn is coming out as expected or maybe a touch better. Beans are OK. I was hoping they would be a little better, but they’re still good.”

LORAINE, Ill. — Aaron Speer has a mixed report on the 2022 harvest.

“Corn is not as good as I thought it was going to be,” said Speer, who farms in Adams County. “Beans are better than I thought they would be.”