Below is a picture of out dry land wheat, and there isn't very much to look at because of the drought. We actually have a couple problems with our wheat - The first problem is obviously the lack of moisture. The second problem is that the verity of wheat that we plant in Western Kansas requires a hard freeze
after the wheat sprouts. The process that is required is called
vernalization and it is what allows the wheat to flower and produce grain. So even if we do get some wheat to grow at this point, it will probably not have had enough cold weather to allow it to produce grain.
We dug around a little bit and found some more wheat that was trying to sprout.
On a positive note our irrigated wheat is coming out of dormancy and has started to grow greener and taller.
We recently got a decent amount of snow around the farm. It was nice wet snow and there was about a foot of accumulation. Since there has been some cold weather to go along with the moisture there may be a chance that we'll actually have some dry land wheat to harvest.
-Farmer Ryan
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