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Winter wheat begins to head in Illinois
Winter wheat has started to head according to the USDA’s first state Crop Progress and Condition Report for 2021.
Winter wheat is rated 74% good to excellent, more than 20 percentage points ahead of this time last year.
The report shows nearly 4 days were suitable for fieldwork last week which allowed some corn and soybean farmers to begin planting.
Topsoil moisture for the state is 70% adequate and 13% surplus with subsoil moisture only 11% short to very short, similar to this week in 2017.
If wheat is heading in Illinois, it must be a single field in the furthest southrn tip of the state, in an extremely early flowering variety. Most producers were putting on near jointing N about 10 days ago.