Wheat trial at St Peter on 12/4/2024. (Provided by Jessica Rutkoski)

Double cropping soybeans after winter wheat is an attractive approach to enhancing farm profitability and soil health in the Midwest. This project is characterizing and developing new high-yielding winter wheat varieties with early maturity – an important trait that enables earlier planting of double-crop soybeans to maximize yield potential.

Read below for a project update provided by Dr. Jessica Rutkoski.

“Wheat trials were designed and planted over the fall. Dry conditions during the fall made it easy for us to plant wheat trials; however, this also caused non-uniform emergence in some of our trials. The full extent of the impact this may have on data quality is unknown, but we are optimistic.”

To learn more about this Illinois Soybean checkoff funded research study, visit the Field Advisor Research Hub here.