Southern Illinois

The, the big rarity here is getting up in the mid-90s, as you mentioned, earlier this week.

We broke records at many places, um, both actual temperature records, and then in Southern Illinois some heat index records.

Uh, so for example, Carbondale had two days where the heat index got above 100, which was the first time in, in at least 60 years that's happened there.

So, um, that heat in, for, for this time of the year in mid-October, uh, is extremely rare.

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... um, ideal range for fall.

Uh, highs in the 60s, maybe low 70s, mid-70s in Southern Illinois, but lows dropping down in the 40s and 50s every night.

Uh, sweatshirt, bonfire weather, and, uh, not too much rain.

No, it does not.

Can you see clearer than ever before? Can you see what's happening? Can you see what's happened for so long? This isn't the Monk's Mound in Southern Illinois, where we all know that there's a temple under the grass, but they aren't fully admitting it yet.

This is completely different.

We all know that the biggest pyramid in the world is right under the grass.

The sun is going down.

It's like you can sit there and imagine what this old Native American city used to look like because they believe it has connections to Cahokia down in Southern Illinois.

And they, they came up here, and they don't know how long these people were here for or why they left, but now we still have these artifacts of, of why they were in the, the Lake Mills area.

So i- it is a really cool area to stop.

There is a highlight.

There, uh, Ballin' for God, which is a really good Southern Illinois YouTube channel, they have highlights of this game.

Okay.

Well, the Cougars only got 3.2 yards per rush off of 34 carries, 110 yards.

Again, that project located in Wood River in the Metro East.

The popular Fort Massac Encampment, which has drawn thousands of visitors to Southern Illinois every fall for decades, will return to Fort Massac State Park in Metropolis October 17th and 18th.

Since 1974, the Encampment Festival has provided visitors with a chance to experience what life was like at Fort Massac during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

The fort served as a frontier outpost along the Ohio River for personnel from France, Britain, and the early years of the US from 1757 to 1814.

So we're always asking people, you know, what, what is it that you normally like to have in your glass, and if a consumer can talk to us about that, we can offer up a different option, one that we can grow well here in the state of Illinois.

Yeah, and you know, as you talk about that, what about those growers and slash members? How many members do you have in your alliance?

Well, I like to talk about, uh, the number of, uh, winery tasting rooms that we have in the state of Illinois, and again, keeping in mind when we started, there were seven wineries, uh, mostly in the Southern Illinois region, and they tho- they had the forethought to think about an industry many decades in the future.

We've experienced a significant am- amount of growth since those early pioneers decided to make something of the wine and grape industry, and we printed an Illinois wine guide.

Right.

What I was referring to in that interview was, uh, I was previously Bishop of Belleville in Southern Illinois, and, uh, uh, the traditional Latin Mass has been celebrated at, uh, the Log Cabin Chapel at Cahokia.

It's not a parish church, although there's a parish next door.

Uh, but this is a, a very old, uh, log cabin chapel literally that's been used.

Central Illinois, 181.

And Southern Illinois would be 204 pounds.

So, you know, we're in the 180-ish range for Northern and Central Illinois, 200 pounds for Southern Illinois.

Okay.

And I've heard you say this before, based on the acreage that's in the PCM program already, that farmers in general already apply far too much nitrogen on the anhydrous rig by, what, 20 to 40 pounds?