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Wheat Industry Applauds Senate American Farmers Feed the World Act of 2023
September 21, 2023
The Food for Peace program has a storied history in Kansas, sparked by a Kansas farmer who suggested U.S. farmers could share their harvest with global neighbors. Keeping the food in food aid remains…
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Kansas wheat industry offers resources to help producers address the challenge of short supplies of certified seed wheat
August 31, 2023
Audio file The availability of certified seed wheat is usually as reliable as bread on the shelves at the local grocery store.
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Control volunteer wheat to stop the streak of yield-limiting diseases
August 24, 2023
Volunteer wheat is certain to be a significant issue in the upcoming growing season, thanks to the late rains that delayed harvest progress and the high rate of abandoned fields. Hidden among the…
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Sorghum U / Wheat U discusses hot topics for Kansas farmers
August 11, 2023
As producers turn their attention from a prolonged and frustrating summer season to fall fieldwork season, approximately 130 Kansas producers gathered in Wichita on August 9 for Sorghum U / Wheat U…
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Day 16, Final Kansas Wheat Harvest Report 2023
July 31, 2023
The Kansas wheat harvest is finally drawing to a close with 95 percent of wheat harvest complete. Overall, this wheat harvest will be one for the record books, although not in the way that producers…
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Day 15, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
July 24, 2023
Everyone in the wheat supply chain is feeling the drag of a long and difficult harvest season. Harvest is still only 87 percent complete, well behind last year and average.
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Day 14, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
July 20, 2023
Up and down the Colorado border, wheat producers are working to finish up harvest. The northwestern corner of the state was among the few that received moisture last fall, snow this winter and rain…
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Day 13, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
July 18, 2023
In western Kansas, wheat harvest is well behind schedule due to weather delays that have also brought hail damage. Despite the disruptions, elevators are generally seeing a better harvest than was…
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Day 12, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
July 17, 2023
Wheat harvest continues to be a slog with producers fighting rains and weeds to get the crop across the scale. Harvest is now 71 percent complete, well behind 98 percent last year and 94 percent for…
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Day 11, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
July 13, 2023
Northwest Kansas has been struggling to get into a harvest rhythm. With high humidity and scattered showers, combines can’t begin rolling until mid-afternoon in most cases.