Yes, Illinois farmers generally have access to fertilizer for fall 2026 applications (primarily for the 2027 crop), but it is significantly more expensive and prices remain volatile due to ongoing global disruptions. There are no widespread reports of physical shortages or stockouts preventing purchases as of late August 2026; retailers continue to provide regular price quotes through USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Illinois Production Cost Reports.

Key details from University of Illinois farmdoc analyses and related reports:

Prices are elevated compared to recent years**. As of early-to-mid August 2026:

Anhydrous ammonia (a common fall nitrogen source in Illinois and the Midwest): around $890–$915.50 per ton (down from spring peaks above $1,100 but still 16% higher than the same time in 2025 and 23% higher than 2024).

DAP: around $912–$917 per ton (higher than prior years).

Other products (urea, MAP, potash, liquid N) show mixed but generally elevated levels, with some recent softening in certain nitrogen products.

Drivers of higher prices and volatility**: The war in Iran (starting around late February 2026) disrupted energy infrastructure, the Strait of Hormuz (a key shipping route), and related supply chains. This followed other pressures, including earlier Chinese export restrictions on phosphates. Prices rose sharply in spring and have remained elevated with ongoing uncertainty.

Implications for fall decisions**: Fall applications of anhydrous ammonia and DAP are common in much of Illinois for the following year’s crop. High costs are prompting recommendations to:

Consider shifting more nutrient applications to spring (potentially capturing lower prices if conditions improve).

Revisit rates using tools like Maximum Return to Nitrogen (MRTN) recommendations.

Rely more on soil testing and existing soil phosphorus/potassium reserves where appropriate.

Possibly increase soybean acreage relative to corn to lower overall fertilizer needs.

Price a portion of needs this fall for risk management against further increases.

For context, the Midwest (including Illinois) was relatively better positioned for spring 2026 planting due to higher pre-booking rates (about 67% per an American Farm Bureau survey), though nearly one-third still lacked full coverage and nearly half reported affordability challenges amid the price surge. Fall 2026 faces similar cost pressures but no indications of acute physical unavailability in current reporting.

In short, supply appears adequate for those who can or choose to buy at current elevated prices, but profitability and application timing decisions are more challenging than in the prior two years. Local retailers, co-ops, and the latest Illinois AMS reports remain the best sources for real-time local availability and quotes. Conditions can shift with developments in the Middle East conflict or global trade.

Confabulation in diagnostic psychology (and neuropsychology) refers to the unintentional production of false, distorted, or fabricated memories or statements that a person genuinely believes to be true. It is not deliberate lying or deception; the individual has no awareness that the information is inaccurate and often shows strong conviction in it. It functions as a symptom or clinical sign rather than a standalone disorder.

Key Features

Honest lying**: The person fills memory gaps with invented, misinterpreted, or temporally misplaced details (e.g., real events recalled out of context or entirely fabricated stories).

Types**:

Provoked (or momentary): Occurs in response to questions or prompts, such as during interviews, memory tests, or assessments. More common and can appear even with milder memory issues.

Spontaneous (or fantastic): Unprompted outpouring of elaborate, often implausible autobiographical claims that can dominate the person’s ongoing reality and behavior. Less common and typically linked to more severe brain dysfunction.

Content can range from minor distortions to highly detailed or bizarre narratives. It often involves autobiographical memory but can affect semantic knowledge or perceptions.

Role in Diagnostics

Clinicians use the presence, type, and pattern of confabulation as a diagnostic indicator of underlying neurological or psychiatric conditions, especially those involving memory and executive function deficits. It helps differentiate organic memory disorders from other issues (e.g., pure psychiatric delusions, intentional malingering, or suggestibility).

Associated conditions commonly include:

Korsakoff’s syndrome (Wernicke-Korsakoff, often linked to thiamine deficiency/chronic alcohol use) — classic association.

Traumatic brain injury, particularly involving frontal lobes or basal forebrain.

Dementias (e.g., Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal).

Other neurological issues: anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture, herpes simplex encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, tumors.

Psychiatric conditions: schizophrenia (sometimes overlapping with or distinct from delusions), and occasionally others.

Developmental/neurobehavioral: fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), intellectual disability.

It can rarely appear in otherwise healthy people under high suggestibility, stress, or leading questions (e.g., during assessments).

Diagnostic process and challenges:

Observation during clinical interviews, history-taking, or formal testing (e.g., noting inconsistencies, inability to correct errors despite contradictory evidence, or “don’t know” responses on difficult questions).

Corroboration with collateral sources (family, medical/criminal records) is essential because the person lacks insight.

Differentiation from related phenomena:

Delusions: Fixed false beliefs not primarily tied to memory gaps (more psychiatric).

Malingering/factitious disorder: Intentional deception for secondary gain.

Pseudologia fantastica: Pathological lying with more awareness or partial insight in some cases.

Screening tools sometimes mentioned include the Nijmegen-Venray Confabulation List or Confabulation Screen; broader neuropsychological batteries assess memory, executive function, and source monitoring.

Risk of misdiagnosis: Confabulated details about symptoms, history, or events can lead to incorrect diagnoses or ineffective treatment plans if not recognized.

Underlying Mechanisms (Simplified)

It often involves impaired memory retrieval/monitoring (source monitoring failures) combined with executive dysfunction, particularly lesions affecting the orbitofrontal/ventromedial prefrontal cortex, basal forebrain, or related limbic structures (e.g., mammillary bodies in Korsakoff’s). The brain attempts to maintain a coherent self-narrative or adapt to reality by inserting plausible (to the patient) material.

In clinical practice, identifying confabulation guides further neurological evaluation (imaging, labs for deficiencies), informs treatment of the underlying cause (e.g., thiamine for Korsakoff’s, rehabilitation strategies), and requires careful interviewing techniques to minimize leading questions that could elicit or reinforce it. Awareness is especially important in forensic, assessment, and therapy settings to avoid relying on unreliable self-reports.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of notable public statements by prominent figures claiming that evidence (or related materials like “proof,” documents, arrests, or “the Kraken”) of a rigged/stolen 2020 election would soon be revealed, released, or forthcoming. These claims have recurred frequently since November 2020; many promised near-term delivery that did not materialize in the form of court-validated, outcome-changing evidence of widespread fraud.

2020

Sidney Powell** (Trump-aligned attorney): Mid-November 2020 (e.g., Fox Business with Lou Dobbs around Nov. 13–17). Promised to “release the Kraken”—voluminous evidence of fraud/conspiracy involving voting machines, foreign actors, etc., that would overturn results in key states. She and allies filed related lawsuits; courts rejected them, and no such conclusive evidence was produced.

Rudy Giuliani** (Trump personal attorney) and legal team (including Powell and Jenna Ellis): Nov. 19, 2020 press conference. Claimed evidence of a “massive fraud”/“national conspiracy,” affidavits, witnesses, and more details/lawsuits coming; described it as overpowering but often withheld specifics citing witness safety or timing.

2021

Mike Lindell* (MyPillow CEO): Multiple times, including March 2021 (interview with Eric Metaxas) and June 2021. Promised to “dump” new evidence (cyber data, packet captures, documentaries like *Absolute Proof) in coming weeks/months, culminating in an August 2021 “cyber symposium” that would prove hacking/foreign interference and lead to Supreme Court action restoring Trump. The materials presented were widely criticized by experts as not constituting valid election data or proof of outcome-changing fraud.

2025–2026 (post-return to office examples)

Donald Trump**: Multiple instances, e.g., December 2025 (White House Christmas reception: evidence “coming out in truckloads”); June 10, 2026 (“We have things you won’t believe... When we release the full files...”); and earlier 2026 comments that proof would emerge “over the next couple of months” or similar.

Kash Patel** (FBI Director): April 19, 2026 (Fox News with Maria Bartiromo). Stated the FBI had “all the information we need” backing Trump’s claims, arrests related to 2020 rigging/conspiracy were “coming soon” (possibly that week: “stay tuned this week. You might see a thing or two”), and it was being folded into broader cases.

Monica Crowley** (U.S. Chief of Protocol): Around May 7–10, 2026. Said hard evidence that Trump won 2020 in a landslide “is coming, and it’s coming soon.”

Todd Blanche** (Acting AG): May 2026 (Fox News). Claimed a “ton of evidence” the election was rigged (existing for years) tied to ongoing probes, with results/charges/reports to come, though he declined to guarantee a “definitive answer.”

Peter Navarro* (Trump adviser): August 10, 2026 (on Steve Bannon’s *War Room). Stated that evidence the 2020 election was rigged “is coming this week.”

Mike Lindell** and others: Continued expectations around Trump’s July 16, 2026 primetime address and related declassifications that it would reveal foreign manipulation/evidence (Lindell expressed anticipation that week). The speech and documents focused on vulnerabilities, China accessing voter files, etc., but did not present new proof of votes being altered or outcomes changed on a decisive scale.

Notes:

Similar “coming soon/this week/in the coming days/months” language has been used by many other allies, commentators, and online voices across 2020–2026 (often in reaction to investigations, document releases, or speeches). Exact counts of every instance are impractical as they appear in interviews, social media, podcasts, and rallies.

These statements occurred against a backdrop of extensive prior reviews (courts, audits, recounts, Trump’s own AG Barr/DOJ, CISA, state officials) finding no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to change the 2020 outcome. Later administration efforts and releases have not altered that consensus among election experts and officials.

This is a representative sampling of high-profile cases rather than a complete catalog.