With the condition of the Kansas wheat crop rated mostly poor to very poor, the annual hard red winter wheat tour conducted by the Wheat Quality Council begins April 30 in Manhattan, Kansas, with an organizational meeting and a dinner.
Approximately 80 participants, representing millers, bakers, producers, traders, government, education, and media, are expected to be on all or points of the three-day tour.
On May 1, the group will travel in cars across six routes through northern and central Kansas and parts of south central Nebraska, converging to report their first-day totals at Colby in northwest Kansas. Reports from the Nebraska Wheat Board and Colorado Wheat will also be issued at that time.
The next day, cars will travel in a southern direction through eastern Colorado, western and southern Kansas, and northern Oklahoma, finishing for the night in Wichita. Reports from the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association and Plains Grains also will be issued.
The final day of the tour is a quick jaunt back to Manhattan. Those on the tour will announce where a final calculated per acre yield total, along with a consensus guess on the crop.
Go to hpj.com/wheattour and follow @HighPlainsJrnl on Twitter to follow continuing coverage of the tour.
Larry Dreiling can be reached at 785-628-1117 or [email protected].
