HUTCHINSON, Kan. — All eyes are on the winter wheat crop as the harvest is now just a couple of weeks away. Things are still looking good in south-central Kansas including Reno County.
“South-central Kansas is probably one of the areas where the wheat looks the best in the state,” Marsha Boswell, Director of Communications for Kansas Wheat, said. “ In north-central Kansas and in central Kansas though, there’s quite a bit of freeze damage from that April 13th freeze.”
Farmers are still dealing with a few minor issues in south-central Kansas.
“We did a virtual wheat tour a couple of weeks ago and had extension agents and people around these different areas reporting back to us what the conditions were,” Boswell said. “Stripe rust has kind of been a bit of an issue but, as long as farmers got some fungicide sprayed that shouldn’t be a major issue. So I think the south-central part of the state is doing pretty well right now”
WIth the hot windy weather in the forecast for the next week to ten days, Boswell expects some test cutting in the far southern counties of Kansas as early as June 10.