While drought conditions have eased in the last few weeks, there are still areas of central Illinois being impacted by it.

On the WHOW Morning Show on Thursday, Reagan Tibbs, Commercial Ag Educator with the University of Illinois Extension in Logan, Menard, and Sangamon Counties, indicated that the drought is something he is keeping a close eye on as we get closer to planting season.

According to Tibbs, producers are probably going to have to squeeze planting into any windows if the Climate Prediction Center's outlooks are correct, and we're in for a wet spring.

Also on the morning show Thursday, Tibbs discussed the conflict in Iran and its impacts on input costs. We'll have more with him on that next week at The Hart Media Group.