How Bad Was Winter for Wheat? In Kansas, We're About to See
- Crop tour this week to measure impact of drought, extreme cold
- Rainfall last week came just in time to save some of the crop
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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More than 90 traders, farmers and other interested parties will head out into the plains of Kansas on Tuesday with the aim of finding out just how tough it’s really been for this season’s hard red winter wheat crop.
The annual Wheat Quality Council crop tour is the first opportunity of the year to systematically inspect multiple fields and assess the damage from dry and unusually cold weather, which has included two major freeze events.