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E102: Winter Wheat Woes
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English - May 25, 2022 20:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBNews farm agriculture farming farmer agtech agribusiness livestock ranching commodity agronomy Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: E101: A Watershed Summer for Ethanol
On May 19th, the annual Winter Wheat Tour wrapped up its survey of the Southern Plains wheat crop, which were estimated yields based on the results of 550 stops through the region. Progressive Farmer Crops Editor Matt Wilde made his way to Kansas with dozens of other industry experts to participate in collecting the data, and reports what he saw on the ground.
Today, we’ll talk about crop development and weather risk still to come, in addition to pest and disease pressure and quality expectations. We’ll dig into variations by region and discuss what’s up next as the wheat harvest gets underway.