BISMARCK, N.D., July 26 (Reuters) – Spring wheat yield prospects are lower than last year in southern North Dakota and neighboring sections of South Dakota and Minnesota, scouts on an annual crop tour found on Tuesday.
The Wheat Quality Council tour calculated an average yield for hard red spring wheat fields scouted in the region at 43.1 bushels per acre (bpa) on the first day of a three-day crop tour.
That figure compares with the 2015 Day One yield of 51.1 bpa and the tour’s five-year average of 45.0 bpa.
Scouts on the tour sampled 177 fields overall on Tuesday, including 173 hard red spring wheat fields, four durum wheat fields and no hard red winter wheat fields.
