Posted on 7/5/2017
If you go by what participants on the Kansas Wheat Tour measured in fields in the past three days, the state’s hard-red winter wheat crop looks pretty normal, but judging by expected abandonment and lower yields due to weather and disease, that’s likely to not be the case.
Farmers, analyst, agronomists, and other market-watchers, using measurements from the fields that were scouted, estimated yield at 46.1 bushels an acre, said Dave Green, the executive vice president of the Wheat Quality Council, which hosted the event. Considering 7.5 million acres were forecast to be planted by the Department of Agriculture, minus “normal” abandonment, ...