Kansas wheat tour shows significant decline in yields, production

Persistent drought and natural disasters have led to a 25 percent drop in projected yield for hard winter wheat in Kansas.

Farmer David Schemm of Sharon Springs tells Brownfield crop conditions have rapidly declined in western areas of the state. “That plant is definitely atrophying those lower leaves and even some fields that flag leaf, which is so vital to the quality of the plant and the yield that it gets, that some of those flag leaves had already atrophied and were dead.”

Following the Wheat Quality Council’s tour, the average yield projection was 39.7 bushels per acre with a production estimate of 261 million bushels.

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