A Kansas State University Extension agronomist says there are reasons to be concerned about wheat winterkill after sub-zero temperatures settled into the Southern Plains earlier this week.
“We’ve got a few conditions that I think bring us a little more concern than normal, “says Lucas Haag, who is based at Colby in northwest Kansas. “We were fairly wet towards the latter part of September, so the crop went in late, which didn’t give us a lot of time to really get good crown establishment and much fall growth.
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