Tuesday, August 28, 2001
The 2001 wheat yield contest results are now official and here they are!
We had hard growing conditions in the Fall of 2000 especially in the Piedmont. Then a killing frost in the late Spring that devastated much of the NC harvest. As a result we only had 1 entry from the Piedmont, a handful of entries of the rest of the state, and no 100 bushel yields at all. But, even with these circumstances, there were some wheat yields to be proud of.
| Award | Grower | County | Agent | Yield |
| Piedmont, 1st | McLain Farms | Iredell | Michael Miller | 75.3 |
| Coastal Pl. 1st | Charles Jackson | Robeson | Georgia Love | 80.5 |
| Coastal Pl. 2nd | Ronald Pridgen | Columbus | Dalton Dockery | 76.8 |
| Coastal Pl. 3rd | Brooks Barnes | Wilson | Normal Harrell | 73.4 |
| TideWater & NC !st | Laurence Wray Chappell | Perquimans | Lewis Smith | 92.0 |
| TideWater & NC 2nd | Weldon Byrum | Perquimans | Lewis Smith | 91.3 |
| TideWater & NC 3rd | Thomas and Wayne Rogerson | Pasquotank | Alton Wood | 90.8 |
Field faculty Michael Miller, Georgia Love and Lewis Smith will also receive special recognition at the January conference.
