ILLINOIS (RFD) — With the greatest number of water-soaked acres in decades still sitting idle, many Illinois farmers face some risky choices as they consider whether to take crop insurance payments or still try to plant corn, soybeans or something else. Scott Irwin serves as an agricultural marketing professor at the University of Illinois;

Irwin says planting corn in June can be very risky, but it’s not all that simple or easy to switch to something else;

Further complicating matters is the Trump administration’s announcement last week that it plans another round of trade war-damage-payments, that may skew what, where and if farmers still plant. The next U-S-D-A planting progress update comes out this afternoon.