Day 17, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report

That is day 17 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reviews, dropped at you by the Kansas Wheat Fee, Kansas Affiliation of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Grain and Feed Affiliation.

Northwest and parts of north central Kansas are nonetheless combating moisture ranges on their journey to wrap up wheat harvest, whereas a lot of the remainder of the state is almost completed.

Dani Zweygardt with ADM Grain in Goodland, reviews that harvest is about half approach executed. A few of their farmers are ending up, whereas others are ready to get within the subject because of excessive moisture ranges. Wednesday night time they acquired one-half to 1 inch of rain all through Sherman County.

Harvest close to Oakley flew by because of very dry wheat, whereas Goodland stayed on monitor with the earlier yr, taking of their first load on June 28. A majority of the dry land wheat has been harvested, whereas they’re ready on the irrigated wheat.

Zweygardt mentioned Brewster has been very sluggish this yr, with a gentle stream however no tremendous busy days on the elevator. There was fluctuation on the load consumption of surrounding elevators.

ADM Goodland has been averaging 12.9 protein and seeing yields between 5 and 50 bushels per acre, with a common of 30 bushels per acre. If there’s one factor their farmers are pleased with, it’s their check weights. The common has been 62.6 kilos per bushel for native farmers.

Total, farmers are happier with their crop than they thought they might be. Zweygardt anticipates they nonetheless have a pair weeks of harvest left.

Brian Linin of Goodland began 4 combines up and working within the subject final Thursday. Some overcast climate and excessive moisture have saved them out of the sector at occasions, however they’ve nonetheless been making progress. He estimates they’ve per week to 10 days left.

Whereas climate hasn’t been of their favor, general he’s nonetheless pleased with this yr’s crop. He mentioned they didn’t must tear up any wheat, however the crop is inferior to final yr. Varieties which have executed nicely for Linin are WestBred’s WB Grainfield, Kansas Wheat Alliance’s KS Western Star and PlainsGold’s Langin.

Linin reviews his common yield is 40 bushels per acre. Proteins are 13 to 14 p.c, and check weights vary from 59 to 63 kilos per bushel.

Erik Lange, Govt Vice President and chief working officer of MKC, says their greater than 50 areas throughout Kansas are about 95 p.c full with this yr’s harvest.

He mentioned, general harvest has gone rather well.

Yields are extremely variable all through their complete commerce territory, starting from zeroed out to 80 bushels per acre on laborious winter wheat, with a median of about 35 bushels per acre. On delicate crimson winter, yields have been much less variable, starting from 45 to 120 bushels per acre, with a median of 60 bushels per acre.

Harvest started on June 9 and the principle space that’s nonetheless incomplete is close to Salina on the northern finish of their territory, the place they’re at the moment on rain delay for the third or fourth day.

Total, acres of each laborious crimson winter and delicate crimson winter have been up about 5 to seven p.c throughout the commerce territory. With elevated acres and first rate yields, delicate crimson winter bushels taken in can be much like final yr, perhaps even a bit extra, however laborious crimson winter bushels are solely about 75 to 80 p.c of final yr.

“Most likely among the largest challenges have been simply the variability in crop and attempting to determine what was coming at us on a everyday foundation,” mentioned Lange.

He reported the laborious crimson wheat high quality was incredible, with a median check weight of 61 kilos per bushel and somewhat over 12 p.c protein throughout the commerce territory. Tender crimson winter wheat high quality is barely above common as nicely.

“There was some illness strain, not as excessive as earlier years, however people who utilized fungicide did see a profit from it,” he mentioned.

With so many sorts throughout the territory, Lange mentioned they attempt to promote discovering the precise selection for the precise acre. They’re providing the MKC Grain Trade Program, which supplies a possibility for farmers to switch bushels of their 2022 wheat crop to MKC in alternate for Licensed seed wheat for 2023.

“We do know that Licensed seeds do make a distinction in yield, long run,” mentioned Lange.

With a wonderful high quality crop, Lange mentioned, “We actually noticed early on there wasn’t a number of export demand within the early a part of harvest, however we now have seen that demand selecting up.”

He mentioned to date MKC has already purchased about half of the crop from their clients, which is about 10 p.c greater than regular for this time of yr.

“Fortunately farmers have been making the most of the nice costs early and getting crops offered,” he mentioned.

The 2022 Harvest Report is dropped at you by the Kansas Wheat Fee, Kansas Affiliation of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Grain and Feed Affiliation. To comply with together with harvest updates on Twitter, use #wheatharvest22. Tag us at @kansaswheat on Fb, Instagram and Twitter to share your harvest story and images.

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Written by Marsha Boswell, Vice President of Communications