Happening tomorrow! (Friday May 23rd). Learn more about wheat, barley, rye, triticale, and perennial wheat Riggs Beer Company in Urbana, IL.

Results are in from this year's Southern Illinois Wheat Association tour — and for a *second* year in a row, data collected projects a record weighted average yield. This year's estimate? A stout 106 bushels per acre. 🌾farmweeknow.com/crop_condition…

#Wheat research increasing production; funding critical. Story & interview with University of Illinois’ Jessica Rutkoski at Brownfield Ag News. #AgNews #ILAgNews #crops brownfieldagnews.com/news/wheat-res…

Lots of these ‘mini-beards’ cropping up now that i’m not selecting for smooth.

It’s been a productive couple of days rating scab and taking notes on yield trials in Southwestern IL. Even found a couple of nice looking new wheat lines.

Our Small Grains Field Day is this Friday June 6th. We will be covering disease management and variety development and selection. Follow this link to find out more details and to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Some shots of our Small Grains field day today. We took a group of participants to 4 different fields and talked about wheat disease control, variety development and selection, and oat/pea intercropping research. Its always fun to show and tell. #wheat #oat

Wheat maturity in Urbana IL has been sighted!

I've been seeing what I think are Cattail Caterpillars on wheat here in Urbana, IL (in a couple of different fields, just about every day that I walk plots). This is a first for me, I am wondering if this is just a fluke or something to be concerned about. #wheat

Enjoyed watching this #wheat plot harvest in Addieville, IL from a birds eye view! #highperformancewheat

Join us on July 31st at 4pm in Greenville for our Summer Forum! Scan the QR code below or visit illinoiswheat.org/2025-summer-fo… to register! We look forward to seeing you there.

One of many firsts for our farm this month. Harvesting triticale for covercrop seed and forage for the cattle. Also did some barley today. Always willing to try something different.

pretty sky tonight

🌾 Choosing the right wheat variety can help you plant double-crop soybeans up to a week earlier — according to Jessica Rutkoski. Read more findings from this Illinois Soybean Association checkoff-funded study in the Annual Insights Report: 👉 fieldadvisor.org/selecting-whea…

Our recent publication in The Plant Genome 🌱🧬 focuses on improving the end qualities (milling, appearance, cooking, and eating) of rice by incorporating marker information from GWAS and utilizing secondary traits in genomic selection. Juan D. Arbelaez doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.7…

There is still time to register for the Summer Forum! The event will be held July 31 at 4 p.m. at the American Farm Heritage Museum in Greenville. Speakers are Mike ODea & Jason Mauck. Register at illinoiswheat.org/2025-summer-fo…. FarmWeekNow/RFD Radio

50 shades of Fusarium damaged kernels (FDK). Damaged kernels often display a wide range different characteristics. #wheat

This accurately describes what work feels like right now. Analyzing trial data to get reports out and decisions made in a timely manner.

Illinois Wheat Variety Testing 2025 results tables have been posted online: vt.cropsci.illinois.edu/wheat/ Data includes: Yield, Test Weight, Height, Maturity Date, Jointing Time, Scab Resistance

Our work on 'Genetic gain due to 21 years of winter wheat breeding at the University of Illinois' is published. Lucas Berger Munaro acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100… When I read the conclusion this image comes to mind.