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Day 5, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2024
June 18, 2024
Kansas wheat producers can’t seem to catch a break in the weather, kicking up swirling, dust clouds as they raced to cut wheat ahead of heavy thunderstorms and hail on Tuesday.
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WOYM – Organic Growth
June 18, 2024
Tim Raile is a wheat grower from St. Francis Kansas who has transitioned all his farm’s wheat production from conventional to organic. On this episode, Tim shares the conversion process they went…
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Day 4, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2024
June 17, 2024
With hot, dry wind blowing sideways, Kansas wheat producers are off and running in full harvest mode. While many growers are pleasantly surprised with better-than-anticipated results, severe…
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Day 3, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2024
June 13, 2024
Kansas wheat farmers are relieved to have a crop to harvest this year, remaining optimistic and pleasantly surprised with the good-yielding, good-quality crop, even as harvest progresses into areas…
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Kansas Farmer Ron Suppes Passes Leadership Baton at Wheat Foods Council's Summer Meeting
June 12, 2024
From nutritionists with Pizza Hut to the chefs at Yale University to influential personal trainers, Ron Suppes shared his western Kansas farmer savvy to conversations across the grain industry value…
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Day 2, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2024
June 11, 2024
This year's wheat harvest is no comparison to last year for farmers in south central and central Kansas, who are seeing better than expected quality and yields after the dry spring took a toll on the…
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Day 1, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2024
June 10, 2024
Officially, the Kansas wheat harvest is now 5 percent complete, ahead of 1 percent complete last year and on average, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service crop progress…
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Mealtime at the field is for making memories
June 10, 2024
Kansas Wheat Spokesperson Anita DeWeese, Pratt, shares tips for harvest meals.
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Kansas wheat harvest begins - Combines rolling in southern Kansas
June 7, 2024
Combines started rolling in southern Kansas over the past few days after barely getting started last week. Harvest started earlier than normal because the wheat has matured early and farmers are…
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A Love Letter to Turkey Red
June 5, 2024
The introduction and adoption of Turkey Red wheat 150 years ago would forever change the wheat industry and establish the genetic lineage for the wheat Kansas farmers will harvest this summer.