Harvest Update
Mark Hodges, executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, provided the following update on the status of the state’s wheat harvest, which is well under way.
Here is Mark’s report, filed Tuesday morning:
The 2008 Oklahoma wheat harvest continues to roll with 100 degree plus temperatures and lots of wind. Test weights continue to be good (almost all above 60lbs/bu.) with an average in most locations around 62lbs/bu. Wheat producers have been generally pleased with yields and the only real problems with harvest being severe weather in isolated areas and the availability of rail cars.
We are now cutting wheat as far north as Fairview (about 50 miles south of the Kansas border), with expectations of test cutting starting in the Oklahoma Panhandle in the next couple of days (the Panhandle area had extremely dry conditions, so this early harvest date for them is related to drought induced early maturity).
Very little quality information is available at this point, but protein has varied by location and we are currently awaiting test results of other quality parameters in this year’s crop.
Estimated harvest completion: South of Hwy. 62, 40%; I-40 South to Hwy. 62, 20%; the remainder of the state is just now getting started.
Jim Stafford
Business News Reporter
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