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Boring watching wheat closely

A mid-Michigan farmer says the season is starting off a few weeks behind normal and wet.

Tim Boring tells Brownfield he’s especially watching how the wheat crop progresses.

“I believe we haven’t had this poor of wheat in the good and excellent category going back to something like 1996, and we have a lot of wheat in the poor, very poor category,” he says.

Boring says because of delayed plantings in the fall, Michigan is also likely to have the smallest acreage of wheat recorded and soybeans make the most sense on transitional acreage.

“As I watch these continued challenges with fertilizer pricing and just availability, I don’t see an awful lot of conditions that are going to further promote putting in corn over soybeans this next year,” he says.

He says it’s no surprise wheat has been rallying over the last month when also considering drought in large production regions out west and the Russian invasion.

Boring is also the current executive director of Michigan’s Farm Service Agency.