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Oklahoma Wheat Crop Heading For Failure Without Rains "Real Soon"
Wed, 30 Mar 2011 6:23:26 CDT
The 2011 Oklahoma Hard Red Winter Wheat Crop is hanging on by a thread- and that thread could quickly break if rain does not arrive soon on most of the wheat left in the state that has a chance to produce a crop this coming June. According to the CEO of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, Mike Schulte, many fields in southwest Oklahoma are already candidates to be "zeroed out" by crop insurance adjusters, and may be planted back into a summer crop if rain arrives later in the spring.
Central Oklahoma's wheat is barely hanging on and needs a rain quickly to have a chance to produce as much as an average yield. Northern Oklahoma wheat fields are in the best shape, but are on the verge of quickly deteriorating unless rain falls in that part of the state.
Schulte talked with farm broadcast colleague Greg Akagi of the Kansas Ag Network about the 2011 Oklahoma winter wheat crop in Manhattan, Kansas on Tuesday at the start of a special seminar being sponsored by Plains Grains, Inc. Schulte also explained the purpose of the Producer Market Awareness Seminar now underway.
Click on the LISTEN BAR to hear the conversation between Greg Akagi and Mike Schulte on current wheat crop conditions.
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