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The Wheat Quality Council's 2008 Hard Spring and Durum Wheat Tour, which will examine the North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana wheat crops, is scheduled for Monday, July 28 and ending Thursday, July 31, and will be covered here on AgWeb.com.

AgWeb's Tanner Ehmke will be joining more than 50 other participants during the week to assess the health and prospects of this year's U.S. spring wheat and durum crops. Headlines for AgWeb wheat tour stories will be marked as "Wheat Tour."

Ben Handcock, South Dakota wheat grower and coordinator of the event, says this year's attendance will be the biggest ever for the tour, which will start in Fargo, N.D., on Monday, travel across North Dakota, South Dakota and into Montana, and return to Fargo on Thursday. The high price of wheat supported by global supply shortfalls has helped generate enthusiasm for this year's tour.

USDA currently has the U.S. hard red spring wheat crop pegged at 596 million bushels, up 8 percent from last year, and the durum crop is estimated at 90 million bushels, up 25 percent.
From http://www.agriculture-supplier.com/ agriculture-supplier