{"id":32504,"date":"2026-03-09T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=32504"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:04:31","slug":"winter-wheat-yield-in-illinois-averaged-88-bushels-per-acre-setting-a-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/32504-winter-wheat-yield-in-illinois-averaged-88-bushels-per-acre-setting-a-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Wheat Yield in Illinois Averaged 88 Bushels Per Acre, Setting a New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><strong>By RHIANNON BRANCH FarmWeek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statewide average winter wheat yield in Illinois for the 2025 crop was 88 bushels per acre, according to USDA, surpassing the record 87 bushels set in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>\u201cA lot of it boils down to the fact that wheat tends to respond to management very well and it seems like the more that you do to promote high yielding wheat, the more that crop responds and gives you that high yielding wheat in return,\u201d Illinois Wheat Association President Tracy Heuerman told FarmWeek. \u201cI think farmers that grow wheat see that and they\u2019re willing to invest in the crop to make sure they get the maximum yields.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-square subscriber-hide tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-default tnt-inline-width-default\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-square hover-expand letterbox-style-blur\">\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\".modal-fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive full blur lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" sizes=\"auto, 906px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg?resize=200%2C200 200w, https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg?resize=225%2C225 225w, https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Illinois tops record wheat yield in 2025\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg?resize=200%2C200 200w, https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg?resize=225%2C225 225w, https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg 300w\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"tnt-blurred-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/farmweeknow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/ba\/fba65aaf-eef1-4ff1-85f0-6df86bd6882d\/69aaeab74aaa9.image.jpg?resize=200%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>The top five highest yielding counties in Illinois were Macon (112.3), Carroll (111.6), Edgar (110.2), Ogle (106.9) and Schuyler (104.6). Countywide average yields also reached or exceeded 100 bushels per acre in Bureau, Champaign, Clark, Gallatin, Greene, Henry and McLean counties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Illinois farmers produced a total of 61.6 million bushels of wheat in 2025, up from 60.2 million in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>The leading counties in winter wheat production last season were Washington (5.6 million), Randolph (3.3 million), Perry (2.6 million), St. Clair (2.16 million) and Wayne (2.11 million).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Heuerman, who farms in Effingham and Clay counties and covers 11 counties across the Interstate 70 corridor as a field sales agronomist for GROWMARK, said the 2025 crop saw timely planting and good emergence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cIn general, from my recollection, the wheat crop from the 2025 season was one of the better looking ones that we\u2019ve had coming out of dormancy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Challenges came later in the growing season including six weeks of wet weather in April and May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cI do think with the commodity prices and the outlook, farmers pulled back on applications of products like fungicides and palisade,\u201d Heuerman said. \u201cSo we did face more lodging challenges than what we had in previous years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Looking at the 2026 crop, she said fields planted in the second half of October were slow to emerge given the dry weather and are a little behind, \u201cBut in general the stands are there, the population is there and I think we\u2019re set up to have another really good wheat crop this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Illinois farmers have had success with wheat yields for several years in a row now, jumping from a 66 bushel-per-acre statewide average a decade ago. After two years of 79- bushel yields (2021 and 2022), the average jumped to 87 bushels in 2023 and remained steady at 86 in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By RHIANNON BRANCH FarmWeek The statewide average winter wheat yield in Illinois for the 2025 crop was 88 bushels per acre, according to USDA, surpassing the record 87 bushels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Winter Wheat Yield in Illinois Averaged 88 Bushels Per Acre, Setting a New Record - 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