Farmer in northwest Minnesota sees yield extremes in spring wheat

Farmer in northwest Minnesota sees yield extremes in spring wheat

A crop and livestock farmer in northwest Minnesota saw extreme variability in her spring wheat this year.

Mikayla Tabert of Red Lake Falls says her family farms some light, sandy ground and it got dry during the middle of the growing season.

“With that, we had a lot a lot of variability in fields. We grow hard red spring wheat and that burned up in a lot of areas, especially the sand ridges.