Highest Percent of Yield Potential winner snags 140+ bushel wheat

The leading yielder in the pilot of the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network says 140-bushel wheat was below average for him. 

Modeled after efforts to improve wheat yields in the United Kingdom, the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network started last growing season with a few dozen growers including Jeff Krohn.

“It really is learning a lot about how the wheat is growing, weather conditions, nutrients that we’re putting on, trying to find holes in the program, and to grow a better crop,” he explains.

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