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Northern spring wheat looks “fabulous”

The spring wheat crop in northern portions of the Upper Midwest looks good.

Minnesota Wheat executive director Charlie Vogel says it’s been dryer further north, and the cool temps have been beneficial.

“The wheat crop looks fabulous. Quality is good, yields are looking good.”

In Monday’s crop progress report, the USDA listed 86 percent of Minnesota’s spring wheat crop in good to excellent condition.  The North Dakota crop is 81 percent good to excellent.

Vogel tells Brownfield this is a critical time for fungicide applications.

“With wet, cool conditions there’s going to be pressure. Protect that quality by putting a good fungicide down so we don’t get scab or stripe rust and everything else, leaf diseases.”

He says spring wheat harvest should begin by the end of July across much of the region.