date:Jul 25, 2013
t the beginning of May.
Scouts on another route farther east forecast yields of 45 bushels per acre, compared with 52.0 bushels per acre a year earlier and the five-year average of 45.9 bushels per acre.
Yields on a third route, which ran farther west and included Mountrail and Burke counties, were pegged at 55.3 bushels per acre, above the tour's 2012 average for that route of 42.2 bushels per acre.
The U.S. Agriculture Department has forecast North Dakota's spring wheat harvest at 229.6 mil