Winter Wheat Off To A Solid Start

The emerging 2012 winter wheat crop appears
to be getting off to a solid start in Kansas after a year of
drought that decimated many other crops.
Hundreds of thousands more acres than usual of tender shoots of
wheat are now emerging beneath dead stalks of drought-slain corn
and soybean crops.
Just how much more winter wheat was planted this fall probably
won’t be known until the government releases its official estimate
in January. Experts say the state is going to have a significant
increase over the 8.7 million acres of wheat seeded last year.
Aaron Harries, director of marketing for the group Kansas Wheat,
says widespread rain from a few weeks ago has helped get a lot of
the wheat fields up and established