ND winter wheat to be down 56 percent from 2012
May 10, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
FARGO North Dakota’s winter wheat crop is forecast at 17.7 million bushels, down 56 percent from last year’s record crop. Continue Reading
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Winter wheat worries increase as drought persists
December 26, 2012 in The Daily Republic
Lee Qualm, a farmer near Platte, has never seen the soil so dry. The fourth-generation farmer has been farming since 1976 and said his father doesn’t even recall the soil being this dry. Continue Reading
Winter wheat forecast for SD changes little
June 13, 2012 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) The government’s estimate of winter wheat production in South Dakota has changed little over the month. Continue Reading
USDA: ND winter wheat crop bigger than projected
June 12, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
GRAND FORKS The U.S. Department of Agriculture says North Dakota’s record winter wheat crop will be even bigger than initially projected. Continue Reading
USDA: ND’s winter wheat will be bigger record than earlier thought
June 12, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The USDA’s agricultural statistics office in Fargo said the crop planted in September will reap 35.3 million bushels next month, up 2 percent from its May forecast and 154 percent above 2011 production. That’s a record by far; the previous record production was 26.2 million bushels in 2009. Continue Reading
SD winter wheat crop expected to be 14% smaller
May 10, 2012 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) South Dakota’s winter wheat crop is expected to be 14 percent smaller than last year’s. Continue Reading
ND farmers to harvest record winter wheat crop this year
May 10, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
North Dakota farmers look to harvest a record amount of winter wheat from a record number of acres this summer, due largely to the late, wet spring last year that made the September-planted crop a better-than-normal option. Continue Reading
Upper Midwest winter wheat lacks ground cover but still ok, according to USDA
February 20, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
In the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture reports, released at the end of January, snow cover for the winter wheat crop was rated as 80 percent poor in North Dakota, 87 percent poor in South Dakota and 87 percent poor or very poor in Montana. No such estimates were made for Minnesota, which has a negligible 50,000 acres of seeded winter wheat. Continue Reading
Weather’s affect on winter wheat: Unseasonably warm conditions could change output
February 2, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
Temperatures have been both pleasantly warm and frigidly cold recently, and area farmers are curious as to what affect recent weather will have on their winter wheat this year.
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North Dakota farmers plant most winter wheat in quarter century
January 12, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
North Dakota farmers planted 700,000 acres of winter wheat in September, a 75 percent increase from a year earlier and the most ever, except for a brief spike in 1984 and 1985 when acres ballooned to 750,000.
Still, the acres reported Thursday were a little less than crop watchers expected because of the late spring last year. Continue Reading
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