North Dakota's Winter Wheat Crop Will Be Quite Nice -- You Betcha -- For Sure

The by-line at the story at the link to The Bismarck Tribune was Mott, North Dakota.

Mason said the winter wheat he'd been into at Regent was showing the best yield he'd seen anywhere. Reports around the area were 50 to upper 50 bushels an acre on winter wheat, not a bumper, but a strong average, for sure.

If it looks like there is an unusual amount of winter wheat out there this year, it's because there is.

According to the USDA Statistics Service, about 700,000 acres were planted to winter wheat this year, close to twice as many as last year.

Kirschemann, like a lot of producers, seeded winter wheat last August in acres that were too wet to plant last spring. Never in North Dakota's recorded crop history were more acres too wet to seed than in 2011.

North Dakotans remain truly blessed. 

For an earlier posting regarding this year's crop, click here.

And back in December, 2010, it was reported that North Dakota was #1 in wheat.

Quite the stories.