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Some folks have been concerned about the winter wheat crop in Kansas and Okl if you study this chart.
http://water.weather.gov/
You will find that for the past 90 days they have received 150 to 200% of normal rainfall. The problem is in Minn and the Dakota's
actually it is a problem. There is to much rain and flooding. Whatever happened to normal?
Exactly.
Here's the latest I've found:
Source USDA h/t http://axcessnews.com/user.php/articles/show/id/13999
The USDA reports that hard red winter wheat crop conditions are not good.
Crop conditions in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas are not as good as last year at this time. In Texas, 61 percent of the crop is rated poor to very poor, and only 10 percent rated good to excellent; last year at this time, 23 percent of the crop was rated poor to very poor, and 42 percent rated good to excellent. In Oklahoma, 29 percent of the crop is rated poor to very poor, and 32 percent rated good to excellent; last year at this time, 19 percent of the crop was rated poor to very poor, and 53 percent rated good to excellent. In Kansas, 25 percent of the crop is rated poor to very poor, and 42 percent rated good to excellent good; last year at this time, only 7 percent of the crop was rated poor to very poor, and 62 percent rated good to excellent.
Conditions in Nebraska are about the same as a year ago. This year, 7 percent of the crop is rated poor to very poor, and 58 percent rated good to excellent. Last year at this time, 6 percent of the crop was rated poor to very poor, and 54 percent rated good to excellent.
http://southwestfarmpress.com/grains/wheat-corn-0208/
Central Oklahoma farmers may turn up some early planted, drought-plagued wheat this spring and replant milo or corn, taking advantage of good pricing opportunities. Late soybeans also may make it into the mix.
A combination of volunteer wheat, germinated from acreage abandoned last summer, and poor planting conditions early last fall left many farmers unhappy with prospects for the winter crop, says Enid, Okla. farmers James and Richard Wuerflein, and Sherwin Ratzlaff.
“Wheat planted in early September looked poor in late fall,” said James Wuerflein. “Volunteer wheat and cheat grass also caused problems.”
”A lot of wheat was left in the field last summer and never cut,” Ratzlaff said. At planting time a lot of that old wheat germinated and caused problems for farmers trying to get in a new crop.
“We sprayed some fields five times with Roundup,” said Richard Wuerflein.
“We had 40 to 60 bushel per acre wheat just laying on the ground,” Ratzlaff said.
Good thing they didn't plant Roundup Ready wheat the year before!
I never meant to imply that I wasn’t concerned. Anyway thanks for the Info.
Do you know of a website that provides weekly crop reports?
I use Ag-insight PDF, however they only report on a single crop or livestock each week.
I receive the PDF file each week from a friend as it is subscription.
No. You have to pay. And big.
To get regular crop reports, you basically have to
"understand" the crops condition already and float
across various nations/websites to correlate the data.
Delta Farm Press, Cleveland MS, is a good source,
believe it or not.
“We sprayed some fields five times with Roundup,” said Richard Wuerflein.
Ah yes, but did they achieve complete field saturation, and did they do a proper downstream belly-up count to assure that was the case? So many questions so few answers!