While winter wheat is emerging in the Dakotas, Kansas farmers aren’t done planting. According to the National Ag Statistics Service, at least 90 percent of winter wheat planting is done in the state. “At the end of the year, we’ll likely have an uptick in acres,” says Aaron Harries, vice president of research, Kansas Wheat. “The weather and markets are the two main factors.” Harries says there’s good emergence where winter wheat was planted into moisture earlier this fall. Conditions are now drier in the western third of Kansas and the later planted winter wheat is being impacted. “Central Kansas has been fairly wet, so things look good there. That’s delayed harvest, but more wheat acres could follow after soybean harvest. Time will tell.”
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