Wheat Watch Season 2 Harvest Edition

It's been kind of hard to get excited about writing about wheat harvest this year because most of the wheat we planted failed; the drought killed it.  I know, blah, blah, blah you are sick about hearing about the drought.  Frankly, I'm sick of writing about it.  I have asked around to see if it really does rain in Western Kansas, and I was assured that it does.  I guess I've just been lucky enough to get started in the dry years.

The irrigated fields we harvested were not as good as most years even thought they had the moisture and fertilizer they needed.  They were impacted by two freezes within a week of each other.  The freezes occurred when the growing point of the wheat was out of the ground.  The growing point is the part of the wheat plant that turns into the wheat head that produces the wheat kernels.  These freezes caused the wheat to bronze which as you can see below basically means it turned the wheat a brown/bronze color.  You can think of it as freezer burn for wheat

We only had one dry land field that made it to the harvest stage of the wheat growth cycle.  It got a couple inches of rain that the rest of our wheat missed out on.  It ended up making about a quarter of what our wheat made last year, but at least we had something to harvest.

Even thought its been another disappointing harvest, there is always next season and next year.

-Aspiring Optimistic Farmer Ryan