South Dakota wheat farmers will be paying a higher check-off assessment on the 2015 crop. Caren Assman with the South Dakota Wheat Commission says they are pleased that an increase in the state check-off was approved in this year’s legislative session.
The check-off is used for education, export and market development but the biggest percentage goes to public wheat research at SDSU. This will help restore funding for those programs in fiscal year 2015.
She says the budget for the South Dakota Wheat Commission had been declining the last several years. It was a result of lost acreage to row crops as well as wheat farmers facing weather problems which lowered production.
