In the USA, a record wheat yield of 15.3 tons per hectare was set in 2025.

American farmer from Idaho, Riley Reynolds, won the Bin Buster award this year for the highest yield of irrigated winter wheat—228.13 bushels per acre (bpa), equivalent to 15.3 t/ha. This is the second-highest yield recorded in the 10-year history of the competition, and for the second time, Reynolds has won in this category. This is reported by dtnpf.com. It is noted that Reynolds set the overall competition record in 2022 when he grew soft white winter wheat on irrigation, which yielded 231.37 bpa (15.6 t/ha). For the second consecutive year, Steve VanGunsven from Forest Grove, Oregon, won in the "Growing Winter Wheat in Dry Areas" category, growing soft white winter wheat with an average yield of 198.32 bpa (13.3 t/ha)—almost 28 bushels (1.9 t/ha) more than his previous year's winner. Nick Pfaff from Bismarck, North Dakota, received the award in the spring wheat for dry areas category with his hard red spring wheat yielding 147.81 bpa (9.94 t/ha), more than 30 bushels (2 t/ha) ...