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Harvest Has Arrived in Southwest Oklahoma-Both for Wheat and Canola
Tue, 10 May 2011 11:25:02 CDT
Harvest time has arrived in southwest Oklahoma for both winter canola and winter wheat. Separate reports have come in on the first loads of the two crops arriving in town.
In the case of the 2011 winter wheat crop, Charlie Swanson, General Manager for Coop Services out of Lawton reports that their Grandfield location in Tillman county took in a load of wheat (250 bushels) on Monday evening. That first load of 2011 wheat was 61.2 pounds on the test weight, 15.1% moisture and the farmer indicated that it was yielding 12 to 15 bushels per acre.
Gene Neuens with PCOM provided us the first report on winter canola. He tells us that the first load of canola was harvested in southwest Oklahoma on Monday and arrived this morning at the PCOM facility in Oklahoma City. Moisture was checked at 6%, there was 5% foreign matter and no green count.
With the triple digit temperatures of the last few days- it's expected that many fields of both crops in the southwest quarter of the state may have been closed very close to being ready for harvest.
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