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“While good rains in August and September have alleviated drought conditions in portions of central and southern Illinois, the most severely affected area in northern Illinois remains stubbornly dry.”
Jim Angel
“Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too.”
“If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.”
“The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm.”
“It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other.”
“We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures.”
“Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.”
“We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over.”
“Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.”
“We don't have that this year to fall back on.”
