Kansas Wheat Communications Director Marsha Boswell is on the Wheat Quality Council’s Winter Wheat Tour. Today, her group is traveling south of Colby, Kansas toward Wichita. “As we’ve gone further south, we have seen more freeze damage. When you cut open the stem and it looks pretty healthy, but it has a long way to go, says Boswell. “Most of the wheat we’ve seen is one foot tall. It’s really short and underdeveloped. We haven’t seen anything heading out yet.” Boswell isn’t surprised with the findings so far. “We expected this because we knew the crop was three to four weeks behind schedule. However, it will still need to be harvested by the end of June/early July. Even though it may have 60 to 80 days left to develop, it will really need to finish in the next six-to-eight weeks.”