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Boosting wheat starts with yield components

Glacier FarmMedia – Unless they’re still waiting on winter wheat, most wheat growers know their 2024 yields. But do they know what components created those yields? Phil Needham, owner of Needham Ag Technologies in Kentucky, outlined the four components of wheat yield and the roles they play: “From a point of view of yield potential […] Read more

Spring wheat yields have increased 28 percent in the last decade, while canola takes it slow. | Getty Images

Wheat in the fast lane

Canada’s canola industry reached a milestone in the fall of 2005. From 1990 until 2004, canola yields across the Prairies were stuck in a range of 23 to 27 bushels per acre. Some producers were recording yields much higher than 25 bu. per acre, but the average yield in Canada was stagnant. Finally, in 2005, […] Read more