Kansas farmers harvesting smaller winter wheat crop

 


MAYFIELD, Kan. (AP) — Kansas farmers are harvesting a smaller winter wheat crop amid an ongoing drought, but the size of the crop is offset some by higher-quality wheat and rising prices.

"Our wheat is rolling out a little better than we anticipated two months ago and we got a little bump in the price," grower Dennis Tencleve said after dumping a load of wheat at the elevator near Mayfield in south-central Kansas.

Tencleve's yields have been running in the low to mid 30 bushels per acre over the 3,000 acres of wheat he is cutting, but test weights are above the 60-pound-an-acre industry s...



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