Southwest Oklahoma – Is harvest ever going to start? Like really start? We’ve been cutting wheat but we haven’t put in a big full day yet. It’s now June 8 and we just got rained out again this afternoon. We’ve had tough conditions with high humidity, mud and lower yields. Where is the hot summer sun? It seems like we’ve had more cloudy days than sunny. The hot summer sun works wonders for our business.
It’ll feel great to finish here and get moved up the road. Daily temperatures haven’t been super hot and the weather has just been unusual for this time of year. I remember so many harvests where we’d get here and go straight to the field and the outside temperatures were above 100 degrees everyday, the wind would blow and we’d just cut, cut and cut.
The yields have been 15 to 40 bushels per acre. The irrigated has done good but the dryland is a result of the severe drought this past year. Our forecast still has chances of rain with highs in the eighties. Summer wheat harvest weather where are you at? I just want to cut wheat all day every day!
Janel Schemper can be reached at [email protected].
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