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On-going drought continues to pressure wheat yields in some states

The head of the National Association of Wheat Growers says the ongoing drought in the northern Corn Belt will negatively impact spring wheat yields. 

“It was very patchy,” Chandler Goule tells Brownfield.

He says the group scouted 300 fields total for yield estimates across South and North Dakota and Minnesota. “We had yields from anywhere from 2.8 bushels up to 58 bushels I think was our best field, but most of them were really falling in between that 15 bushel-per-acre to 35, maybe 38 bushel-per-acre.”

Goule and National Wheat Foundation project manager, Anne Osborne, attended the Wheat Quality Council’s 2021 Hard Spring and Durum Tour across those states.

Goule says excessive heat will force many growers to begin harvest next week.  “I’m not going to say they were optimistic but very thankful they had crop insurance programs,” he says. “I think they were already expecting to have low production.  As we continue to look, I think we will have decent quality, but we’re going to have low yields.”

He says despite yields being down across many drought-stricken states, growers will meet demand.

Chandler Goule, Executive Director for NAWG:

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