By WNAX The U.S. winter wheat crop continues to have one of the worst condition ratings in 20 years at only 34-percent good to excellent. That is up one-percent on the week. However, in major production areas like Texas the … Continued
By Kay Ledbetter, AgriLife Today AMARILLO – The dryland wheat crop is hanging on by a thread, of sorts. Root development on wheat plants is making a difference in this drought year in the High Plains. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo … Continued
High Plains Journal Cooler temperatures were experienced across the state for the week ending April 1, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Southern Plains Regional Field Office, Texas. The Trans-Pecos, the Northern High Plains and areas of the Edwards … Continued
By Jonathan Knutson, Agweek Wheat — which has long been losing ground, literally, to corn and soybeans — will stage a small comeback this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts. Both U.S. and Upper Midwest farmers will plant a … Continued
by Dr. Clark Neely, Statewide Small Grains Extension Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Dr. Emi Kimura, Regional Extension Agronomist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Dr. Tom Isakeit, Extension Field Crops Pathologist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension For wheat growers in a good … Continued
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the Winter Wheat and Canola Seedings and Crop Production reports, on Friday, January 12. According to the reports, national wheat seedings are down less than one percent … Continued
By DTN/Progressive Farmer USDA’s final Crop Progress report of 2017 showed winter wheat conditions below the five-year average. USDA estimated winter wheat conditions at 50% good to excellent as of Sunday, Nov. 26, down 2 percentage points from 52% good to … Continued
G/E rating drops to 50%; meantime, corn harvest hits 95% completion. Ben Potter, Farm Futures A week ago, USDA trimmed the 2017/18 U.S. winter wheat crop’s good to excellent rating from 54% to 52%. This week, USDA made similar cuts … Continued
January 8, 2015 (click on the images at the right to increase their size for easy viewing) [ezcol_2third]According to USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey, the current drought coverage is the nation’s lowest in more than three years, since Dec. 20, 2011. During the … Continued
“The worst I’ve ever seen,” was a phrase commonly heard during regional freeze injury assessment meetings held throughout the Rolling Plains and Panhandle this spring. Agronomists, extension agents and wheat researchers agreed that damage sustained from five significant freeze events … Continued