The Kansas wheat harvest is off to a slow start. The crop has been slow to mature this year. And now heavy rains in south-central Kansas are creating further delays and quality concerns says Marsha Boswell with the Kansas Wheat Commission. “Those drown out spots are obviously affecting yield because they’re not going to be able to cut those,” Boswell says. “They’re not going to have any grain in the head. And so that’s definitely had an impact on yield and the longer it stands there mature, that could affect quality.” Boswell tells Brownfield the crop looks good in western Kansas.
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