HRW Wheat Tour Day 2: 34.5 BPA

HRW Wheat Scouts See Weather Extremes

Tour leaders instructed scouts to throw yardsticks into each field to select random spots to estimate yields. International Trade Specialist for USDA/FAS Christine Mumma, tosses her yardstick into a field early Wednesday morning near Russell Springs, Kansas. (DTN photo by Rhonda Brooks)
Freeze damage, winterkill, drought stress and disease clobbered wheat-yield estimates on day two of the 2015 Wheat Quality Council Hard Red Winter Wheat Tour. Yield estimates ranged from 0 to highs in the upper 70s. Most of the yield estimates scouts reported...

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