2026 HRS Wheat Tour Final     07/23 15:37

   Spring Wheat Tour Final Average Yield Estimate: 48.0 BPA

   Day 3 of the Wheat Quality Council's Spring Wheat and Durum Tour concluded 
Thursday with the final three-day total weighted average yield estimate of 48.0 
bushels per acre, down slightly from 48.3 bpa estimated during last year's tour.

Jason Jenkins
DTN Crops Editor

   Day 3 of the Wheat Quality Council's Spring Wheat and Durum Tour concluded 
Thursday with the final three-day total weighted average yield estimate of 48.0 
bushels per acre (bpa) of 238 fields total for the three days. The average 
spring wheat yield of 218 fields was at 48.0 bpa, and the average durum yield 
of 20 fields was at 48.2 bpa.

   In the 2025 tour, the final total weighted average yield estimate of 307 
fields was 48.3 bpa, with an average spring wheat yield of 292 fields at 49.0 
bpa and an average durum yield of 14 fields at 37.0 bpa.

   On the third and final day of the tour, scouts estimated a total weighted 
average yield of 51.9 bpa on 43 fields. All fields were hard red spring wheat. 
That was down from 52.7 bpa on 34 HRS fields visited on the third day of the 
2025 tour.

   In its July Crop Production report released July 10, USDA NASS estimated 
North Dakota's average 2026 durum wheat yield at 44.0 bpa and its spring wheat 
yield at 58.0 bpa. USDA estimates North Dakota will produce 42.24 million 
bushels (mb) of durum wheat and 257.52 mb of spring wheat this year. That would 
be down 11 mb from last year for the state's durum crop and down 19.1 mb from 
last year for the state's spring wheat crop.

   For more on Day 2 of the tour, see 
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/crops/article/2026/07/23/spring-wheat-t
our-day-2-average-48-1.

   For more on Day 1 of the tour, visit 
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/crops/article/2026/07/22/spring-wheat-t
our-day-1-average-45-9.

   Watch http://www.dtnpf.com for more follow-up reporting on the tour.

   Jason Jenkins can be reached at jason.jenkins@dtn.com

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