Day 2 of the Wheat Quality Council’s 67th Annual Hard Winter Wheat Tour concluded Wednesday, May 14, with a total weighted average yield estimate of 53.3 bushels per acre (bpa). Scouts assessed 211 wheat fields along six routes traversing western and southern Kansas from Colby to Wichita, along with some sampling in five select counties in northern Oklahoma.
Last year, the average yield estimate on these same routes was 42.4 bpa. After two days of scouting on the 2025 tour, the average estimate yield is 52.0 bpa, compared to 45.8 bpa in 2024.
One of the cars that went into Oklahoma and across on US 64 was driven by Oklahoma Wheat Grower President Dennis Schoenhals, who talked on Wednesday evening with Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays. Click on the Listen Bar below to hear their conversation”
Schoenhals says that as they got into Oklahoma – they saw wheat north of Beaver and over near Forgan says some good looking 40 bushel per acre- and they he says they got west of Alva and some some really good wheat yielding wheat in the middle 40s- and that’s the yield was seen eastward into Alfalfa County before turning north to get back into Kansas and arrive in Wichita.
He did see multiple fields in the process of being bailed for hay- because of the low price for wheat and the heavy demand for hay for these high priced cattle.
