Illinois Wheat Assn.: Slow Corn Development Likely to Delay Winter Wheat Planting
Date Posted: August 27, 2008
This article is reprinted from the Illinois Farm Bureau's August 27 Newsletter
Winter wheat growers may have a smaller window this fall to plant their crop due to slow development of the corn and soybean crops.
"We’re going to be on a very tight schedule,” said John Brink, president of the Illinois Wheat Association, during the group’s wheat forum last week in Highland.
“Obviously (harvest progress) will dictate how many wheat acres are seeded in most of Southern Illinois.”
Brink typically begins harvest in mid- to late September, which allows about a two-week window to combine soybeans, prepare fields, and plant wheat.
However, many growers at the wheat forum indicated harvest won’t begin in earnest until October.
Illinois farmers last year planted 1.2 million acres of wheat, a 10-year-high and up from 970,000 acres the previous year, according to Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois Extension crop systems specialist.
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