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2012 Wheat Tour: Day Three

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

Aaron Harries, Kansas Wheat’s Marketing Director, reports from Kansas City: More than 100 participants of the annual Wheat Quality Tour anticipate the 2012 Kansas wheat crop will total 403,933,601 bushels, and average about 49.1 bushels per acre. Those are the … Continue reading →

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2012 Wheat Tour: Day Two

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

Aaron Harries, Kansas Wheat’s Director of Marketing, reports from Wichita: The 2012 Wheat Quality Council Hard Red Winter Wheat Tour departed Colby early Tuesday morning with expectations of lower yield predictions than those recorded on day one. The participants took … Continue reading →

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2012 Wheat Tour: Day One

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Aaron Harries, Kansas Wheat Director of Marketing, reports from Colby: More than 100 individuals (a record crowd), including representatives from Mexico, Brazil and Japan left Manhattan early Tuesday morning to kick of the 2012 Wheat Quality Council Hard Red Winter … Continue reading →

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USDA Reports are ‘Last Week’s News’

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Last week’s big Crop and Wheat Plantings reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent futures markets tumbling. But today, these reports are old news, as the markets are being influenced by “today’s” news. For instance, while January weather usually … Continue reading →

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Warm Weather Has Yet to Awaken Wheat Crop

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

If we didn’t know better, we would think it is spring here in Kansas. The first week of January, daytime temperatures soared past 50 degrees, and as we head into the second week of the New Year, forecasters are calling … Continue reading →

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