Fifty percent of the Kansas winter wheat crop is rated poor to very poor this week.
Gary Millershaski, who farms near the town of Lakin in southwest Kansas, says his dryland wheat looks really tough.
“Our crop actually looks like it’s the middle of February,” says Millershaski. “We plant anything from 10- to 12-inch rows and, when you look with the rows, there’s more ground visible than what there’s actually green, growing crop.”
Millershaski says it’s the driest six-month period he’s ever seen.
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