Spring wheat tour results less than expected

Spring wheat tour results less than expected

The spring wheat crop is likely to be less than first thought.  The Wheat Quality Council’s just-completed Hard Red Spring and Durum Wheat Tour yield estimate is 41.1 bushels to the acre.

“Certainly that’s not a crop failure kind of a number,” said Dave Green, executive vice-president of the Wheat Quality Council.  A close look at the crop caught people off-guard, according to Green.

“When we got out there and saw that it’s certainly a nice crop, there just weren’t the tiller counts and the head sizes to generate any thinking that this could be a record crop,” Green told Brownfield Ag News Friday.

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