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Peterson Farms of Grant was busy harvesting their wheat in the beginning of July.

This year’s wheat harvest in the bin

By Russ Pankonin

Grant Tribune-Sentinel

In late June, it looked like this year’s wheat harvest would come early. 

But true to form, Mother Nature had other ideas and the harvest in the Perkins County area didn’t really get started until around the Fourth of July.

Farmers have now completed this year’s wheat and will turn attention to next year’s crop and/or the other crops still in the field.

Strahinja Stepanovic, UNL cropping systems extension educator in Perkins, Chase and Dundy counties, said dryland wheat fared well this year. 

He said he had reports of dryland yields as high as 85 bushels per acre. 

While high yields were reported, Stepanovic said protein content in the wheat went the other way. 

With both hard red and hard white winter yields planted in the region this year, Stepanovic said the red wheat proved to be the better protein producer. 

As a researcher, Stepanovic said he’s anxious to see the results of the university’s wheat plot studies at the Henry J. Stumpf International Wheat Center just east of Grant. 

He cited several factors that could have played a role in the lower protein. 

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