TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey growers harvested 1.21 million bushels of wheat in 2020 on 18 thousand acres, for an all-time record average yield of 67 bushels per acre, according to Bruce Eklund, state statistician of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New Jersey Field Office. The second highest yield was 66 bushels per acre in 2019. New Jersey’s first official wheat estimate was for 1866 with an average yield of 13.5 bushels per acre on 130 thousand acres.
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