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Some Illinois Farmers Considering Planting Early

Farmers in Illinois are deciding whether to plant their fields weeks ahead of schedule this growing season after an unusually mild winter.

LeRoy family farmer Eric Mennenga hopes to plant this week. Illinois Farm Bureau spokesman John Hawkins says other farmers are planting early too. But he says those farmers are taking a "calculated risk" because there still can be a frost. He says replanting costs would come "right out of farmers' pockets."

Mennenga has a contingency plan. He says his family will plan only a portion of their crops early. Mennenga and his wife have already done tilling work on soybean fields. Mennenga says unusually warm weather over the last week has warmed the soil, making it ideal for planting.

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