Heavy rains during Centralia' s corn planting season prevented some farmers there from planting corn  It is now the planting season for soybeans, another of Centralia' s principal crops, and those fields originally intended for corn are dry enough for planting
Nonetheless, even though soybean prices are unusually high at present, the farmers will leave most of these fields empty rather than plant them with soybeans, since
the extensive rains have led to an increase in the price of corn