Southern, eastern North Dakota spring wheat yields above average- tour

By Karl Plume

MANDAN, North Dakota, July 26 (Reuters) – Spring wheat
yields in southern and east central North Dakota rebounded
sharply from final yr’s drought-hit crop as ample soil moisture
boosted harvest potential within the nation’s prime producing state,
scouts on an annual crop tour mentioned on Tuesday.

Crop scouts estimated a mean arduous crimson spring wheat yield
of 48.9 bushels per acre (bpa) in 120 discipline stops on the primary
day of the Wheat High quality Council’s (WQC) tour, up from the
tour’s day-one findings in 2021 of 29.5 bpa and above the
five-year common of 39.0 bpa.

North Dakota is the biggest producer of spring wheat within the
United States, the world’s fourth-largest wheat exporting
nation. The high-protein selection is utilized in artisanal breads,
pizza dough and bagels or blended with lesser grades of wheat to
enhance flour high quality.

Grain merchants, millers, bakers and exporters are monitoring
outcomes from the tour after shorter harvests in key wheat
producing areas and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sharply
reduce exports from the Black Sea breadbasket area.

An elevated spring crop would offset drought losses from
the harvest of arduous crimson winter wheat, the biggest U.S. wheat
class. The U.S. Agriculture Division projected general U.S.
wheat manufacturing in 2022 of 1.781 billion bushels, up from 1.646
billion in 2021.
(Reporting by Karl Plume in Mandan, North Dakota)

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