Get Excited About Growing Wheat!

Get Excited About Growing Wheat!

Susan Allen
Susan Allen

I'm Susan Allen For you wheat growers, if you think you are going to have a good spring wheat yield you might think about entering it in the National Association of Wheat Growers inaugural wheat yield contest. Producers set to harvest their spring wheat have until August 1st to enter online. NAWG Director of Research and Technology Steve Joehl said that amid declining acreage figures, they want to see the contest result in producers getting excited about growing wheat

Joehl: What we are trying to do is create a little more excitement among producers to look at how they can how drive productivity in wheat. Which is the big issue, the goal is driving productivity in wheat. We haven't attracted the amount of research across public and private resources as corn and soybean have for instance. So this is a vehicle to drive awareness that we need improvements and productivity as well as to get farmers excited about trying new things and how they improve their own productivity and then sharing it with other producers around the U.S.

Yale says he and others want to see wheat yields improve by 20 percent over the next five years as a result of the increased research and improved production practices brought about by the contest. He says a big goal of the contest will be to facilitate the sharing of production practices, which Joehl says will hopefully lead to the same rate of production improvements witnessed as a result of the National Corn Growers Association yield contest.

More information about the contest can beseen at Wheat Foundation dot org (www.wheatfoundation.org).

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