Drought severely impacting winter wheat in Kansas

The drought in Kansas expanded and intensified last week and that’s hurting winter wheat condition.

The latest crop progress and condition report from USDA says the crop is rated 26 percent good-to-excellent. Forty-nine percent of the crop has joined, 16 percent behind last year.

Twenty-one percent of corn is planted with one percent of the crop emerged.  Soybeans planted was 3 percent and sorghum and cotton planted were 1 percent.

Topsoil moisture is rated at 30 percent adequate-to-surplus and subsoil moisture is rated 30 percent adequate-to-surplus.

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