Elbow Lake Minnesota farmer Scott Swenson has wrapped up six years on the National Wheat Foundation board. The National Wheat Yield Contest was in its infancy when Swenson joined the board. This competition evolved from strictly a yield contest to include quality characteristics. “We evaluate them for all the different parameters we see as farmers, but also ones that the millers and bakers are interested in like water absorption.” said Swenson. “We didn’t want to be promoting what I would call it ‘junk wheat’ by having a yield contest.”
