Drought-stressed wheat in Kansas
4/22/2025 10:09:06 AM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
AFFECTED AREAS:
Barber County, KS
Barton County, KS
Cheyenne County, KS
Clark County, KS
Comanche County, KS
Decatur County, KS
Edwards County, KS
Ellis County, KS
Finney County, KS
Ford County, KS
Gove County, KS
Graham County, KS
Grant County, KS
Gray County, KS
Greeley County, KS
Hamilton County, KS
Haskell County, KS
Hodgeman County, KS
Kearny County, KS
Kiowa County, KS
Lane County, KS
Logan County, KS
Meade County, KS
Morton County, KS
Ness County, KS
Norton County, KS
Osborne County, KS
Pawnee County, KS
Phillips County, KS
Pratt County, KS
Rawlins County, KS
Rooks County, KS
Rush County, KS
Russell County, KS
Scott County, KS
Seward County, KS
Sheridan County, KS
Sherman County, KS
Smith County, KS
Stafford County, KS
Stanton County, KS
Stevens County, KS
Thomas County, KS
Trego County, KS
Wallace County, KS
Wichita County, KS
Start Date: 4/21/2025
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Kansas wheat has not received much rain in April and was clearly drought-stressed. In western Kansas from Colby to Garden City to Tribune, the wheat is drought-stressed with yellow leaves at the bottom of the stems.
“…, at this stage, the wheat plant has already set the total potential kernels that will develop in the wheat head. Any stress from here until harvest will drop that number down, although the impact of the current dry weather and temperature swings will not be realized until the plant is more fully developed.”
Dodge City Daily Globe (Kan.), April 21, 2025
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