Cool weather has prevented winter wheat crops in the top U.S. growing state showing even more damage to drought, academics said, viewing crops as in fact in better condition in some areas than the drought year of 2012 according to a report at Agrimoney.
Temperatures which have been “as much as 9.7 degrees Fahrenheit below normal during the fall, and 11.3 degrees Fahrenheit below-normal during the winter” in Kansas have curtailed the damage caused by the lack of rainfall, Kansas State University said.
“Cooler temperatures during the winter have likely been beneficial, especially recently, for slowing the crop development down,” the university said.
While, over the past two seasons, “the majority of” wheat varieties grown in Kansas had reached the so-called “hollow stem” stage of development, “none have reached it yet this season."
Read the full report at Agrimoney.
