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Kansas July 3 Harvest Report: Harvest Expected Not to Be Complete by Fourth of July Due to Threatening Rains

This is day 11 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association and Kansas Wheat.

Harvesters across the central part of the state are going strong and some areas will wrap up before the Fourth of July.

Northern harvesters are getting cranked up as a chance of rain Wednesday night threatened to delay progress.

KAWG President Joe Kejr, Brookville says he is two days from completing harvest.

There was a good chance of rain Wednesday night so they will wrap up the final fields after things dry down this weekend.

Harvest is slowing down for the Lindsborg location of Mid-Kansas Co-op.

Craig Roebke says the pace of deliveries has slowed the past two days. Grain quality is average this year and it’s starting to fall off of the 60 lb test weights taken in initially.

Not all farmers in his area will finish before the 4th of July but most will finish over the weekend if they miss the showers.

Also winding down is the Elkhart Coop Equity Exchange.

Nancy Lutz reports farmers are finishing their last fields with many expecting to finish next week.

The elevator will be closed on the 4th of July for the first time in several years.

The yields are very low from drought conditions but they did have one report of 80 bushel wheat on irrigated ground, which shows the hardiness of the wheat plant to dry conditions.

With the drought, protein levels have ranged from 12.3% to 15.2%.

The area’s milo crop is starting to suffer from the lack of moisture and hail has taken its toll on the corn in the north.

Skyland Grain LLC location in Manter reports they too are not as busy as they were at the beginning of the week.

They have a little bit of irrigated wheat in the area which will keep them taking grain for a few more days.

Amber Painter expects harvest to extend through the holiday weekend.

Test weights have been in the upper 50's and lower 60's with moistures from 8 to 16%.

In the northwest part of the state, the Norton County Cooperative Association took its first load a week ago and experienced some delay over the weekend.

Megan Tegtmeier reports that combines got cranked up Tuesday and Wednesday but they had a 50% chance for rain Wednesday night.

The quality has been good with the majority of test weights from 58 to 61 lb. per bushel and most moisture levels below 12%.

Last year Norton County was largely hailed out.

They expect to receive about 1 million bushels this year, which would be twice as many bushels as last year.

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