The winner of the American wheat yield contest named the factors of high productivity of grain in arid conditions.

Red clover leaves behind a significant amount of nitrogen, which aids the initial development of winter wheat sown after it. American farmer Steve VanGrunsven, who farms in the arid conditions of Forest Grove, Oregon, and achieved a yield of 13.3 t/ha on irrigation, winning the 2025 National Wheat Yield Contest (USA), was convinced of this. This is reported by dtnpf.com. Steve VanGrunsven has won the contest in the category "Growing winter wheat in arid regions" for the second year in a row. This year, with an average yield of soft white winter wheat of the American variety Rosalyn, he achieved 198.32 bpa (13.3 t/ha). Interestingly, he started growing winter wheat as a means of expanding crop rotation to "clean the soil" for forage grasses and clover, which are the main cash crops of the farmer. The field, previously sown with clover, was sown on October 5, 2024, with a conventional double-disk seeder at a seeding rate of 1 million seeds per acre. The seeds were treated with ...