Source: John Hart, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 5/19/17


The wheat crop in North Carolina’s Central Piedmont has generally recovered from the hard freeze of March 15 and 16, but yields will still be down significantly while the crop in the Southern Piedmont will still show devastating losses. That’s the word from Angela Post, North Carolina State University Extension small grain specialist, who adds that the crop in the rest of the state is looking good with wheat that wasn’t damaged by the freeze should make an average yield of 65 bushels per acre.

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