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Month: March 2023

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Winter wheat update

Posted on March 31, 2023March 22, 2024 by Giovani Preza Fontes

llinois producers planted 650,000 acres of winter wheat in the fall of 2021 and harvested 560,000 acres in 2022, with an average yield of 79 bushels per acre. Boosted by high world wheat prices, high wheat and good doublecrop soybean yields, and dry fall weather, planted acreage for 2023 rose to 880,000 acres….

Posted in Crop Production, Small Grains
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Nitrogen for the 2023 corn crop

Posted on March 15, 2023October 20, 2023 by Giovani Preza Fontes

Helped more than hurt overall by periods of dry weather during the season, the 2023 Illinois corn averaged 214 bushels per acre, the highest yield on record. We’ll look at some results from N fertilizer trials in 2022 and consider how we manage N for the upcoming season…

Posted in Corn, Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition

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