The 2014 US hard red spring wheat crop was projected to yield 48.6 bushels per acre, scouts on an annual crop tour said Thursday, exceeding the tour's 2013 forecast of 44.9 and the tour's prior five-year average of 44.7 bushels per acre. Scouts on the Wheat Quality Council's three-day tour of North Dakota, the top spring wheat state, and adjacent areas in Minnesota and South Dakota also projected an average yield for 2014 durum wheat of 36.6 bushels per acre, down from 41.7 last year.
The figures were based on tour assessments of 373 spring wheat fields and 17 durum fields.
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