Harvest just getting started at first of this week in Newsgram reading area

“Below to way below” harvest anticipated

 


A call to a few area elevator operators Tuesday found the 2018 wheat harvest is barely underway in the Newsgram reading area.

No one is excited about harvest this year because of the drought conditions, late freeze, in some cases hail and other detrimental factors.

Ronnie Truelock, general manager of the Farmer's Cooperative in Alva, said of the 2018 wheat crop in this area, “It's going to be below to way below, I'm afraid.”

He said the harvested number of acres is way down. He said the worst of the wheat has already been baled into hay, grazed off by cattle or destroyed.

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