Results from winter wheat tour paint gloomy picture for ’23 wheat crop

Results from this year’s Hard Red Winter Wheat tour show it could be the worst crop in 60 years.

The Wheat Quality Council predicted an average of 30 bushels per acre with production at 178 million bushels, the first time since 1963 total production in Kansas could be under 200 million.

Romulo Lollato, an extension wheat and forage specialist with K-State, says drought ruined much of the crop in Southwest and South-Central Kansas – the two largest wheat producing regions in the US. 

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