The head of the National Association for Wheat Growers says the ongoing drought in the northern Corn Belt will negatively impact spring wheat yields. 

“It was very patchy,” Chandler Goule tells Brownfield.

He says he scouted 300 fields for yield estimates across South and North Dakota and Minnesota. “We had yields from anywhere from 2.8 bushels up to 58 bushels I think was our best field, but most of them were really falling in between that 15 bushel-per-acre to 35, maybe 38 bushel-per-acre.”

Goule and National Wheat Foundation project manager, Anne Osborne, attended the Wheat Quality Council’s 2021 Hard Spring and Durum Tour across those states.

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