National Wheat Foundation Project Manager Anne Osborne says the national wheat yield competition had entries from 27 states this year. “Our region did very well with seven winners; six from North Dakota, and one from Minnesota. Matthew Krueger from East Grand Forks, Minnesota was second in the Dryland Spring Wheat category with 113 bushels per acre, and Jon Wert from New England, North Dakota took third with 108 bushels an acre.” Spring wheat growers who exceeded their county averages were all from North Dakota. “Jordan Christman, Austin Kautzman, and Greg Messer all from western North Dakota exceeded their county average by about 179 percent.” A new national yield record was set in the irrigated winter wheat category at 231.37 bushels per acre by Rylee Reynolds of Twin Falls County, Idaho.
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