Illinois
USDA expects smaller winter wheat crop in Illinois this year
The USDA is lowering its Illinois Crop Production estimate for this year’s winter wheat crop.
The USDA is estimating the harvested area at 680,000 acres. That’s a 13-percent decline from the previous year. The winter wheat yield is forecast at 83-bushels per acre, down four bushels from 2023.
The overall production is forecast at 56.4 million bushels, down 17-percent from last year.