Wheat harvest is about as bad as it could get this year

  • A BAD YEAR FOR WHEAT In a year that brought extreme drought followed by extreme rainfall, it was hard for area wheat producers to catch a break. Dryland fields were almost completely wiped out, with irrigated fields bringing in less wheat than normal. Pictured is Javier Sigala offloading a load of wheat at the Farnsworth Equity elevator in Farnsworth.
    A BAD YEAR FOR WHEAT In a year that brought extreme drought followed by extreme rainfall, it was hard for area wheat producers to catch a break. Dryland fields were almost completely wiped out, with irrigated fields bringing in less wheat than normal. Pictured is Javier Sigala offloading a load of wheat at the Farnsworth Equity elevator in Farnsworth.

    The 2022-23 wheat harvest in Ochiltree County left a lot to be desired, with yields significantly below average.

    According to Scott Strawn, Ochiltree County Extension agent, the extreme drought through most of the season never gave dryland fields a chance to grow, while the extremely heavy rainfall in the last couple of months delayed the harvest for almost a month.

    “By May 1, the dryland crop was p…