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Soft Red Winter Special Edition Harvest Report 2023
June 27, 2023
Soft red winter wheat has been a bright spot in Kansas’ otherwise challenging year, but only 4% of the state's wheat is SRW.
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Day 6, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
June 27, 2023
Harvest continues to march across the state, moving into areas with higher abandonment, variability and pressure to get crops cut as unwelcome weeds take over short, thin stands.
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Day 5, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2023
June 26, 2023
The Kansas wheat harvest is 21 percent complete, well behind 54 percent last year and 38 percent for the five-year average.
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Day 4, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
June 22, 2023
At any other time of the year, rain would be more than welcome. But for farmers with combines ready to roll, harvest delays due to rain add insult to injury for a crop stricken by drought.
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Day 3, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2023
June 20, 2023
Combines are kicking into gear across a wider swath of central and eastern Kansas. Officially, the Kansas wheat harvest is now 8% complete.
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Day 2, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2023
June 19, 2023
Variability will continue to be a theme for the 2023 Kansas wheat crop as harvest continues to expand out from the southern central and southeastern portions of the state.
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Day 1, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2023
June 14, 2023
Wheat harvest started off slow, with some farmers cutting in south central Kansas, but delayed by scattered rains.
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K-State Agronomy Details Recommendations for Cutting Short, Thin Wheat
June 7, 2023
As producers prepare to harvest short wheat and thin stands, K-State cropping specialists recently detailed their recommendations for adjusting combines and operator control in a recent Agronomy…
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Inaugural David Radenberg Memorial Scholarship Awarded to Annika Wiebers
May 25, 2023
From buying her own market lambs to show at her county 4-H fair to testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Annika Wiebers, from Wamego, combines an affinity for agriculture with a…
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Abandoned fields and low yields underscore Wheat Tour 2023
May 18, 2023
The 2023 Wheat Quality Council’s Hard Winter Wheat Tour across Kansas wrapped up on May 18.