This is the final day of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association and Kansas Wheat.
Eastern and northern areas of Kansas are still harvesting but most areas will wrap up with a few more days of dry weather.
Areas in the northwest are experiencing effects of hail damage.
Harvest will probably wrap up in the Concordia area over the weekend.
Bob Johnson of the Cloud County Coop Elevator Association reports that in between rains, farmers have cut about 95% of the crop.
Overall, this was a really good harvest and they have collected a large amount of grain. Test weights held up pretty well through two major rain events and protein levels hung in there at 12% through the whole harvest.
As the last few fields have been cut, some quality losses have been suffered, but generally, harvest is very good.
Bob Freese with Ag Partners Coop in Hiawatha reports they are 90-95% done and expect to finish up this weekend.
The quality of the grain was really variable with test weights from 48 to 60 lbs per bushel.
Their harvest wasn’t delayed much by rain and the level of disease was the biggest determinant for the variability in test weights.
Joe Horton with United Plains Ag, Sharon Springs, reports that harvest was very smooth, overall.
Their southern region didn’t have any rain delays, and just one occurred in the Sharon Springs area.
Dryland yields at around 30 bushels per acre and irrigated yields from 60 to 100 bushels per acre were a pleasant surprise.
Grain quality was better than last year, as test weights were very good and proteins from 11 to 12 percent.
A few irrigated fields remain to be cut.
There are some fields remaining in the Stockton area.
A substantial portion of the Stockton Farmers Union Elevator’s northwest territory was pummeled by hail and according to Deb Miller, the total number of bushels received by the elevator this harvest will be down as a result.
Their test weights are down from rain in the past week in the neighborhood of 59 lb per bushel.
Protein levels in Woodston are about 12% with early wheat from Stockton higher.
Overall, most producers report yields from 35 to 40 bushels per acre.
The harvest will be long for Frontier Ag Inc in Goodland. About 65% of the dryland acres, according to Ben Brandvik, remain to be cut.
He adds that plants in some of the fields sustaining hail damage broke over early in development, and these plants are tillering again.
This has resulted in wheat samples containing both dry grain and kernels at the dough stage.
Fields of irrigated wheat in the area are still too wet to harvest.
The quality of the grain is still good despite the rain showers; the test weights are holding and proteins are high.
The 2008 Harvest Salute to Producers is brought to you by Kansas Wheat in conjunction with sponsors the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain and the Kansas Grain and Feed Association.
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