Pine Bluffs Post - Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908

Courtesy of Karen Lipska

Above: A wheat combine cuts the crop from the field of Greg Marquardt this week. Southeast Wyoming produces most of the winter wheat grown in the state. In 2017, the most recent figures available, the county contributed to the 4 million bushels of wheat produced in southeast Wyoming, when the state had total crop production of 4.25 million bushels. Statewide yields in 2017 were 28 bushels to the acre, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.