But farming is a risky business and double cropping occurs on about half of the approximately one million wheat acres in Missouri. Nevertheless, think more carefully this year about how you might proceed if double cropping is part of your strategy after wheat.
Any good crop requires adequate moisture, energy, and nutrients to be successful.
It's especially hard to get everything just right to be successful at double cropping soybean, especially in a drought year. A sufficient growing season is typically a combination of good management and luck. A timely wheat harvest alone is not enough. There must be sufficient soil moisture to start the crop and hence, to start the growing season. Double cropping has a reasonable chance for success in Missouri only about as far north as I-70 where wheat is harvested at about the beginning of the last week of June.