Kansas Wheat Commission

Crop tour estimates 40-percent plunge in Kansas wheat output

Kansas farmers sharply scaled back winter wheat sowings because of low market prices, assuring a smaller crop this year than last. Now disease, snowfall, and freeze damage this spring are dragging prospects down even further.

From Midwest to Plains, winter wheat harvest is slow

Repeated rain storms have slowed the winter wheat harvest from Indiana to Kansas, says the weekly Crop Progress report.