Erskine Crops Rebound
After a difficult start, Brady Lee says recent rains have helped the wheat on his Erskine, Minnesota farm. “It was pretty short when it started to head out, but then we got an inch-and-half of rain that really made a…
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Dry Weather Takes Its Toll on OK Crop
While some parts of the state's wheat crop are in tough shape, Oklahoma Wheat Commission Executive Director Mike Schulte says northeast Oklahoma wheat looks good. "Northeastern Oklahoma grows soft red winter wheat which makes anywhere from 85-to-100 bushels per acre…
Late-Seed Crops Helped by the Recent Moisture
The recent moisture has been beneficial for Brian Boll's later-planted spring wheat. “In some of the sandier fields, wheat is six inches tall, brown and headed out, but our later-seeded stuff looks pretty good." The soybeans on Boll's Crookston farm…
Not Counting Out the Wheat
Despite limited moisture this spring, Red River Sales and Agronomy sales agronomist Leah Johnson is pleased with the crop conditions in the Elbow Lake, Minnesota area. Wheat has seen the most stress this year, but Johnson isn't ready to give…
Pastures Green Back Up
Rains brought new life to pastures and crops near Shevlin, Minnesota. “The rain we got definitely shaped things up, it was spotty and varied in amount," said Ryan Holm. "We were about an inch-and-a-half in our area, but some areas…
An Uneven Crop
Rock and Roll Agronomy owner Jason Hanson, who is based at Webster, North Dakota, is looking at very uneven heading in the wheat crop. "It's not the crop we’d like to see. In ten-inch row spacing you can still see…
Variable
Variable seems to be the word of the season so far. For Matthew Krueger at East Grand Forks, the fields that have seen moisture look great, but rainfall has been hard to come by. “We have some fields that received…
Winds Damage Southern Plains Wheat Crop
Winds topped 100 miles per hour across parts of the Southern Plains in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas a week ago. Texas Wheat Producers Director of Communications Darby Campsey says the windstorm has affected the dryland wheat crop. "Our main concern…
Small Grains Battle Bacterial Leaf Streak
NDSU Extension Cereal Plant Pathologist Andrew Friskop has three diseases in wheat that he’s worried about. "The most problematic disease in 2022 was bacterial leaf streak followed by scab and fusarium head blight. Most of the head diseases were kept…
Tight World Wheat Stocks
The wheat market has had its fair share of issues this past year. North Dakota Wheat Commission Market Devlopment and Research Manager Erica Olson says the global supply and demand situation is holding up. "There are some issues with main…
