Winter Wheat Harvest Picking Up
Joe Denoyer - June 27, 2023 7:16 am
Two combines work late to cut wheat in a field on the wide open plains.
The Kansas wheat harvest is 21 percent complete, well behind 54 percent last year and 38 percent for the five-year average, according to the official statistics provided by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service crop progress report for the week ending June 25, 2023. Maturity was rated at 58 percent, also behind 84 percent last year and the 77 percent five-year average.
Winter wheat conditions were rated at 53 percent very poor to poor, 31 percent fair and 16 percent good to excellent.
After several delays, Kansas farmers are finally seeing harvest weather. With this week’s hot temperatures, harvest is ramping up.
