National crop updates have indicated for weeks that spring wheat yields would suffer because of drought.

Now as harvest advances, USDA’s Economic Research Service is lowering production estimates for hard red spring, white, and durum wheat.

Hard red spring is grown mostly in the Northern Plains, where extreme drought conditions continue to plague the Dakotas and Minnesota.

University of Minnesota Extension crops educator Jared Goplen tells Brownfield wheat yields have ranged from near 90 bushels on heavier ground to 10 to 15 bushels per acre on lighter soil.

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