Quality Issues Seen in the Wheat Harvest

Wheat harvest across the Southern Plains continues to lag. Iowa-based custom harvester Paul Paplow has crews spread out from Texas to Kansas. The wheat crop has been pretty good, but quality is becoming a concern due to recent rains. “They’ve got a nice crop here, a lot with the worst we’ve cut probably being 45 up to 70 bushel wheat,” said Paplow. “Quality concerns are probably the biggest issue, we’ve had some 63-pound test weight, and we’ve had some loads that went out at 44 pounds. I’m not really sure why, being in the same field, same variety of wheat.”