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Yield map shows record year for winter wheat

​Ontario winter wheat yields covered by Production Insurance hit a record high in 2016, with a provincial average of 96 bushels per acre. That’s 20 per cent higher than the 10-year average. Production Insurance customers also harvested nearly twice as many acres this year, with more than 790,000 acres compared to about 460,000 in 2015. The following map shows yields for soft red winter wheat.


Source: Agricorp


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