The region was well represented amongst the National Wheat Yield Contest winners. Karissa Berg of Bottineau, North Dakota, earned second place in the top quality division of the spring wheat dryland category. “The variety that we grew this year was Ballistic, which is a Dyna-Gro wheat variety. We got 110 (bushels per acre) and we were really happy with that.” The list of award winners in the spring wheat-dryland category includes Nick Pfaff of Bismarck, North Dakota; Luke Anderson of Forman, North Dakota; Brent Philipp of Goodridge, Minnesota and Robert Holzwarth of Hazel, South Dakota. For dryland spring wheat, the honorees in the above-average-county-average category include two North Dakotans; Jordan Christman of Hettinger and Andrew Doll of New Salem. In the new digital yield category for spring wheat, three North Dakota farmers are winners. They are Isaac Hendrickson of Agate, Greg Messer of Richardton and Brad Disrud of Rolla.
