Kathryn Seebruck – Commercial Agriculture Educator Winnebago County Soil Conditions: Mildly Dry (soil is drier than normal, plant growth may have slowed) Across much of the area, there are entire fields of soybeans exhibiting cupping. The widespread nature of the symptom could point to environmental stress as the cause, potentially from hot and dry conditions over the past week and a half. Many soybean fields are still not canopied. Corn has greatly increased in height recently due to the a...