Rain too late for wheat, rye in Kansas
5/10/2023 1:32:31 AM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
AFFECTED AREAS:
Kansas
Comanche County, KS
Start Date: 5/4/2023
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The rain was about a month too late to help the winter-seeded cereal wheat or treated rye, but pastures are beginning to turn green. Many cattle were being sold; some entire herds were up for sale.
“The biggest and the hardest part of production agriculture is the mental game that you get put through. You have all this risk, where it’s financial, or it’s your physical labor and time,” the rancher stated. “When it doesn’t rain, you did all that work and have no return. It just wears on you. The refreshment of it finally raining was awesome. It kind of renews your spirit a little. You see the plants pop up when you dig a shovel full of soil. You see the earthworms back right there in that top four to six inches. So, we just need more days of rain.”
KWCH 12 (Wichita, Kan.), May 4, 2023
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