The harvest pace remains above average and nearly twice as fast as last year.
And, that’s good news for wheat growers who took advantage of open fields and dry conditions in recent weeks to plant a majority of the winter crop in Illinois.
“We’ve had a very busy season,” Dale Wehmeyer, president and founder of AgriMAXX Wheat in Mascoutah (St. Clair County) and Illinois Wheat Association member, said this week. “There’s a lot of interest in wheat this year as prices moved up, which definitely caught farmers’ attention. A lot was planted last week.”
Illinois farmers planted 73% of the wheat crop as of Oct. 18, well ahead of the average pace of 55%. A quarter of the crop emerged as of that same date, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service Illinois field office.
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