Peanuts are a privately traded commodity with limited published yield-forecasting research, despite being the seventh most valuable U.S. field crop (USDA NASS 1999). For peanut stakeholders, a critical question is how early these weekly USDA snapshots can reliably predict what will eventually arrive at the buy points and shellers. This work extends to peanuts the methodological framework applied to corn and soybeans by Irwin and Good and Irwin and Hubbs and draws directly from Cunningham.

Based on crop insurance, the spring planting window in Illinois for corn is 61 days for corn and soybeans, longer in the southern region and shorter in the northern third of the State. It is arguably the most critical window in the entire crop year, with the likelihood that delayed planting will result in lower yields. To address questions of risk and conservation, we began by exploring this all-important spring planting window and this article examines the days suitable for fieldwork in that window.

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