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Fall Rains Delight Oklahoma Panhandle Producers

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:49:27 CDT

Fall Rains Delight Oklahoma Panhandle Producers The rains have come to the parched Oklahoma Panhandle. The past two weekends have seen nice rains in Texas and Beaver Counties- and even Cimarron County saw over an inch of rain this past weekend.

Rick Kochenower, OSU Extension Agronomist for the Panhandle, told us at the Biofuels Field Day in Chickasha on Monday that reports he has received puts Cimarron County between an inch and an inch and a half of rainfall this past weekend, Texas County from 2.7 to 5 inches of rain and western Beaver County also with two to three inches of rain reported by various producers.

Kochenower says that the rains this month will help dryland grain sorghum finish strong, and should allow the winter wheat now in the ground to get solidly established. And, when the fields will support equipment, there will be a lot more acres of wheat sown between now and November first, based on the available Revenue Assurance and Crop Revenue Coverage levels available for the 2009 crop. November first is the last date that wheat can be sown under the terms of crop insurance policies for the 2009 crop.

Here is the Oklahoma Mesonet rainfall totals going three days back- which catches this past weekend for those Panhandle Counties. (The Mesonet is not quite as generous in their readings as were the reports shared with Kochenower by various producers.)

We have our conversation with Rick Kochenower on the rain and how it impacts crops at this point in time in the Panhandle- click on the listen bar to hear our conversation.

Ron Hays with Rick Kochenower on rain arriving in the Panhandle.

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