date:May 09, 2016
hels a year ago. The tours prior five-year average for the same area is 35.9 bushels per acre.
The tour, which also found above-average yields on Tuesday in northern Kansas, is scheduled to release a final yield forecast for the countrys top wheat-producing state on Thursday.
Adding to the bearish picture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier on Thursday said that weekly old-crop export sales of wheat totaled just 178,900 metric tons, down from 351,800 metric tons a week ago. New-crop wh