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.
