We have always had wheat. We have a lot of sandy ground and before irrigation it fit our rotation.  With irrigation we can double crop soybeans and get 3 crops in 2 years.  Local elevator yesterday said they're not buying ANY wheat this year because their buyer has rejected every sample they have submitted this year because of vomitoxin.  Variety, fungicide, nothing seems to make a difference.  I've heard in SW Illinois they are not buying any wheat because it has sprouted in the head.

I should pause and explain that the southern Illinois wheat market is Siemers in Teutopolis.  They pretty much make or break the wheat market here.

I talked with a cousin last night and both of us are considering giving up on trying to grow wheat.

30 years ago we cleaned wheat seed out of our bins and planted a couple bushels to the acre and grew 65 bushel high quality wheat.  Today we are buying premium seed treated with fungicides, insecticides, any old 'cide you can think of, planting it to a specified population, split applying nitrogen, applying fungicide, irrigating ... and growing 80-90 bushel wheat that nobody will buy.

Any suggestions? And no, getting a bunch of chickens is not an option ;)