Wheat harvest could begin this weekend
John Brink, a Washington County farmer and president of the Illinois Wheat Association, believes wheat harvest in his area could begin as early as this weekend despite the fact his farm received more than five inches of rain in past seven days.
More of North Dakota's 2009 spring wheat crop is now in the bin than in the field, but harvest remains two to three weeks behind schedule in this year of a floody, late spring and cool summer.