Kansas Wheat Tour sees highest yields since 1998

Projected wheat harvest would be largest since 2003.

Compiled by staff

Published: May 3, 2012

Participants of the annual Wheat Quality Tour anticipate the 2012 Kansas wheat crop will total 403.9 million bushels, and average about 49.1 bushels per acre. Those are the findings after two-and-a-half days of criss-crossing the state and making more than 500 field stops along the way.

If realized, the average yield per acre would be the highest since 1998, when Kansas farmers harvested 49 bushels per acre, according to Kansas Ag Statistics. In 2003, farmers reaped 480 million bushels in all – that was the last time the 400 million bushel mark had been eclipsed.

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