Oklahoma wheat report

Gordon Cougar, a friend in Stillwater, Oklahoma, sent us the following report this morning. Thanks, Gordon!

My brother sent me this picture of our wheat today. You can see some of the damage from red leaf rust if you look closely. That is the best looking cotton-stalk wheat I have ever seen. I am not familiar with the variety, so I can't guess at the yield. But my pessimistic brother and the farmer think it is pretty good.

I take to the elevator at home, and they were still there at 8:15 p.m. (Tuesday night), so they still had people out cutting wheat. Harvest is just getting started, and Mike Cassidy of Cassidy Grain only knew of one field that had been cut and the yield calculated. It made 37 bu/ac and had a test weight of 57 #/bu. The wheat did not look as good as what will come later.

Mike was concerned about the effect the rust was having on the test weight of the wheat. So far, it is all running light. Unseasonable cool and damp weather is delaying harvest. Hopefully, the mild weather will put a few more bushels in the combine bin.

Everyone's hope is the later wheat will be better and have better test weights.

With a couple of hot, dry windy days, they will cut a lot of wheat. The cash price of wheat in Frederick is $4.10 today. I doubt anyone will sell at that price. They either already have it priced or will hold on for a while.