Editor’s note: The following was written by Giovani Preza Fontes, John Jones and Emerson Nafziger with the University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences for the university’s Crop Bulletin website April 7.
Illinois winter wheat enters spring in good condition
The condition score for national winter wheat as of April 14 was at 329, which is down from 346 last year but higher than the five-year average of 318.2.
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