Wheat growing belt concerned about the Weather

Dry and cold weather in the Plains states could spell trouble for wheat crop. USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey says snow cover is eroding in many parts of the High Plains from Montana into Texas."So if you make that short trip across the plains say from eastern Colorado into northeastern Kansas, you are going to find a very brown environment in the western areas," Rippey said. "As you head into northeastern Kansas there is still quite a bit of snow, as much as a half a foot on the ground."

The western and southwestern hard red wheat belt remains under significant drought stress and weather extremes. "The producers in that region have been fairly fortunate this winter in that conditions have not been that extreme." Read more...

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