Some corn, soybeans, and spring cereals have been planted in Ontario despite generally wet conditions, but the biggest spring story may be the quickly advancing winter wheat crop.
According to Real Agriculture agronomist Peter Johnson, some of last fall’s earliest planted winter wheat fields (mid-September) already had flag leaves emerging as of this week. That means those fields should be starting to head around the middle of this month. And assuming normal weather conditions, the period from heading to harvest is usually around six weeks.
“We could be combing wheat by the end of June, the first of July in those areas,” Johnson said on the latest update of his crop hotline. “That is crazy early.”
More typically, winter wheat crops in Ontario start to come off later in July.