Driving through Kansas during the recently completed Wheat Quality Council Hard Winter Wheat Tour, the record turnout of more than 70 crop scouts were taken aback by the dry conditions leading into the most critical time for wheat development.
Completed May 5, the tour's calculated average for the Kansas wheat crop was 37.4 bushels per acre compared to 40.7 bushels on the same routes in 2010. The crop scouts are invited to join a pool to estimate a production total for the Kansas crop, basing their estimates on expected yield and acres to be harvested. This year, 54 participants joined the pool, offering an average estimate of 256.7 million bushels.
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