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Kansas Wheat Tour day two yields slightly behind

The second day of the Kansas Wheat Tour is reporting a slight lag to last year’s record yielding crop.

“We averaged 46.9 bushels per acre on 205 stops and last year our day two average was 49.3 on 300 stops.”

Dave Green, Executive Vice President of the Wheat Quality Council, tells Brownfield the two day average for the tour this year is almost four bushels per acre behind last year.

He says the tour was unable to take yield averages in snow covered areas, but it’s still too early to evaluate losses.  “When we got to the snow and we couldn’t get into the fields, we just proceeded to continue on until we got fields that we could get into.  There is a big portion of the western third of Kansas that was not scouted and is not part of these statistics.”

He estimates at least half of the western third of Kansas wheat crop is damaged to some extent. The tour wraps up this afternoon.

AUDIO: Interview with Dave Green