Articles tagged under: Kansas

A Busy Harvest Run

Published August 2, 2024

Westlake Harvesting owner Alan Westlake, of Crookston, Minnesota, has been working the entire harvest run.  "We started in southern Oklahoma at Duke, we've been to Garden City, Colorado, northern Kansas and now we're in Pierre, South Dakota." While the weather…
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About Average

Published July 12, 2024

Wade's Harvesting owner Wade Haak of Strasburg, North Dakota says the harvest in Kansas and Oklahoma went very well. "Probably above average. We did anywhere from 25 bushels to 70 bushels." Weed pressure was low for most of the fields…
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Winter Wheat Harvest Rolling Along

Published July 11, 2024

Arrow B Custom Harvest’s Haley Brown, Ponca, Nebraska, says this year’s winter wheat yields have been all over the place. "The wheat's been really good, but it's been sporadic. Where we started down in Alva, (Oklahoma), we had some 70-bushel…
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WQC Wheat Tour Recap

Published May 17, 2024

The Kansas wheat tour wrapped up with a production estimate of 290 million bushels on an average yield of about 46 bushels per acre. Wheat Quality Council Executive Vice President Dave Green says the wheat crop was better than expected. "That's…
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Safety Precautions Advised

Published April 5, 2024

With HPAI expanding from juvenile goats to dairy cattle to a person, additional safety precautions are advised. Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health Director Renee Anthony said this may be an isolated case, "but, we really need to be prepared…
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Mid-Plains Harvest Results Vary

Published October 3, 2023

Holdrege, Nebraska-based custom harvester J.C. Schemper has a crew harvesting corn in Kansas. "We've seen some 50–to-60-bushel dryland up to 100 bushels and some irrigated land that was 120-to-200 bushels." Schemper finished his North Dakota harvest in mid-September. "We saw…
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KS Wheat “Just Okay”

Published June 29, 2022

Elk City, Oklahoma custom combiner David Misener is cutting wheat near Hays, Kansas. "The yields are 35 to 45 bushels per acre. I've had a few fields that have done better than that, but for the most part, the majority…
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More Winter Wheat Acres Possible in KS

Published November 7, 2021

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…
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