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Wheat Farmers in the Southern Half of the State Enjoy Another Shot of Rainfall- Aiding the 2012 Wheat Crop
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:38:05 CDT
Oklahoma's winter wheat crop is largely seeded- with a lot of acres going into the ground this week ahead of this latest shot of mositure that a large number of counties have received from Wednesday evening into Thursday evening- rainfall totals were a half inch or better- with lots of readings above one inch of rain from Hollis and Sayre eastward all the way to the Oklahoma Arkansas border in the Sallisaw- Ft. Smith area.
The most recent Oklahoma Crop Weather Update showed 82% of the expected Oklahoma wheat acreage was in the ground at the beginning of the week- even with the five year average for the state.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, Mike Schulte, says that many fields of wheat that he has seen this week in southwest and central Oklahoma have looked pretty good, although many of those fields were just starting to look a little stressed ahead of this latest round of rain.
Schulte lamented the lateness of this year's rains during our wheat planting window, as it has cost the opportunity for many producers to have any wheat pasture for this fall. Little rain fell until a widespread outbreak of rainfall around the eighth and ninth of October- well after the window of opportunity had closed to plant wheat in time for getting the crop up to stand and ready to turn cattle out to graze on.
Click here for several pictures of some recently emerged wheat in Canadian County Oklahoma that we took on Thursday afternoon, October 27.
Click on the LISTEN BAR below to hear our Thursday conversation with Mike Schulte- and you can watch an additional conversation that we had with Mike on Saturday morning during the morning news block of KWTV News9 in Oklahoma City- our In the Field segment will air around 6:40 AM.
We will be watching and reporting on the 2012 winter wheat crop over the next nine months- our WheatWatch reports are a service in part of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, click here to learn more about how they are putting your wheat checkoff funds to work for wheat producers.
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