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Kansas Wheat Commission says crop quality better than 2023

It’s been a good harvest for many Kansas wheat farmers.

Marsha Boswell with Kansas Wheat says the overall quality is better than last year’s drought-stricken crop.

“Test weights have been above 60 pounds and so we’ve been seeing excellent quality,” she says. “With some of that mature wheat getting some rains on it, some of that has dropped down to the upper 50s, but overall a really good quality crop.”

She says there was a high abandonment rate for last year’s crop.

“The estimate right now is an average of 40 bushels per acre, which is less than an average crop, but so much better than the last couple years,” she says.

Harvest is mostly complete in Kansas, and Boswell says growers in northwest Kansas should finish within the next week.