It was a warm and wet week in Illinois, setting up a slow, usual harvest week.

State crop statistician Mark Schluessner indicates only four days were suitable for fieldwork as topsoil moisture conditions improved thanks to the wet week.

Harvest progress is still ahead of last year's pace but only slightly.

Winter wheat planting is nearly complete.

Pasture conditions 41-percent very poor to poor and 27-percent good to excellent.