Majority of Texas wheat likely to be abandoned
5/19/2022 12:00:00 AM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
AFFECTED AREAS:
Archer County, TX
Armstrong County, TX
Bailey County, TX
Baylor County, TX
Borden County, TX
Briscoe County, TX
Carson County, TX
Castro County, TX
Childress County, TX
Clay County, TX
Cochran County, TX
Collingsworth County, TX
Cottle County, TX
Crosby County, TX
Dallam County, TX
Dawson County, TX
Deaf Smith County, TX
Dickens County, TX
Donley County, TX
Floyd County, TX
Foard County, TX
Gaines County, TX
Garza County, TX
Gray County, TX
Hale County, TX
Hall County, TX
Hansford County, TX
Hardeman County, TX
Hartley County, TX
Haskell County, TX
Hemphill County, TX
Hockley County, TX
Hutchinson County, TX
Jack County, TX
Kent County, TX
King County, TX
Knox County, TX
Lamb County, TX
Lipscomb County, TX
Lubbock County, TX
Lynn County, TX
Mitchell County, TX
Montague County, TX
Moore County, TX
Motley County, TX
Ochiltree County, TX
Oldham County, TX
Palo Pinto County, TX
Parker County, TX
Parmer County, TX
Potter County, TX
Randall County, TX
Roberts County, TX
Scurry County, TX
Sherman County, TX
Stephens County, TX
Stonewall County, TX
Swisher County, TX
Terry County, TX
Throckmorton County, TX
Wheeler County, TX
Wichita County, TX
Wilbarger County, TX
Wise County, TX
Yoakum County, TX
Young County, TX
Start Date: 5/19/2022
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Wheat prices are incredibly high, but, unfortunately for Texas wheat growers, a lot of the wheat will not be harvested this year.
“Most of them will probably be totally abandoned, most meaning probably something like 70, even up to 80 percent,” according to a professor of agronomy and the wheat breeding program coordinator at the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and Research Center at Amarillo.
One of the factors responsible for the high wheat prices is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Those two countries account for about 30% of global exports, but it is not certain how much either country will produce this year.
Indian officials announced plans to export a record amount of wheat to help make up the shortage, but later announced a ban on wheat exports as a major heat wave damaged their crop. It has since been announced that some exports will be permitted.
Texas Standard (Austin), May 19, 2022
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