North Dakota's Other Industry

In The Bismarck Tribune today:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistic Service annual puts out a Prospective Plantings report based on a survey of farmers. The report, which came out last week, said North Dakota producers are planning to plant 16 percent more spring wheat than they did last year, about 5.9 million acres statewide. Durum wheat acres are expected to total 1.1 million, up 38 percent.

As prices have started to fade, prospective corn acres are down 23 percent from last year, to 2.95 million acres.

That does not seem trivial: spring wheat up 16 percent, and durum wheat up 38%. Based on this story and earlier stories along the same line, it sounds as if global warming might be favoring North Dakota.