“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 […]
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Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Communications AMARILLO – Wheat Freeze Assessment Sessions will be held April 17-18 across the High Plains, South Plains and Rolling Plains after temperatures dipped into
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Texas Winter Wheat Progress Planted: 87% (5 Yr Avg: 83%) Emerged: 65% (5 Yr Avg: 61%) Texas Winter Wheat Condition Good-Excellent: 34% Fair: 42% Poor-Very Poor: 24% Source: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Texas/Publications/Crop_Progress_&_Condition/txcw4512.pdf Panhandle:
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This week, Texas crop condition ratings for winter wheat improved. Currently, 25 percent of the crop is rated as good to excellent, 40 percent fair and 35 percent poor to very poor.
–Robert Burns, Texas AgriLife Extension Wheat highlights from the most recent Texas crop and weather report: North: Even after rains the previous week, soil-moisture levels remained very short to short. However,
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The Texas wheat harvest is drawing to a close this week as combines push north out of the state. Harvest throughout the South Plains has completed and producers in
Harvest Report – June 30 Read More »
Combines are beginning to wrap up the Texas harvest as they continue to push through the Panhandle region. Harvest across the South Plains region is wrapping up with approximately 98
Harvest Report – June 22 Read More »
Combines continued their northern journey this week as they reached the Texas Panhandle. Harvest in the Southern Blacklands and Rolling Plains has wrapped up for the season. Quality factors in
Harvest Report- June 16 Read More »
Combines continued to roll further north this week as they reached the Texas Panhandle. Harvest in the Southern Blacklands and Rolling Plains should be complete by week’s end with very
Harvest Report – June 8 Read More »
The Texas wheat harvest continues to progress as combines moved north into the southern half of the Texas Panhandle this week. Elevators reported taking in grain in the South Plains
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