Yield Guide & Dryland Durum

17/3/2025

AFSC publishes a yield guide showing reported yields across all the risk areas of Alberta. I do enjoy comparing real world yields but some caution is needed. Some varities are more commonly grown in wetter areas such as the highway 2 corridor vs in at Oyen or near Lethbridge vs near Brooks on dryland.
But sometimes if a variety seems well distributed and compares pretty close we can make some inferences.
Grainland Durum was one that struck out to me, It is a solid stem and typically suggested for the driest of dryland so it probably goes on soil that is very dry.
Last season I would ave expected Stronghold to beat it but according to these charts it held its own and in previous drier years it beat stronghold on average.