The stories continue to roll in from incredible wheat producers from across Oklahoma- and while the weather has pushed the 2025 harvest later for most than anytime in recent memory- it’s remarkable that we are still hearing of high quality, excellent yielding wheat.
Here’s a sample from those reports from Tuesday and Wednesday of this week:
Tipton (Wednesday evening as a line of storms were seen in far southwest Oklahoma) Peter McKay reports “Just got rained out in Tipton.”
Cherokee– Drake Williams Wednesday morning reports 1-2 inches of rain in Cherokee most are shut down for the day.
Miami- Ottawa County– Zach Rendell posts- “Equipment has been checked over about 80 times! Should start Friday or Saturday. The plus side to all this rain, I will have some outstanding corn and milo yields this fall!!”
Hobart– Zachary Harris tells us “Have yet to eat a sandwich in the wheat field yet. Lots of short days but at least still able to go.”
Calumet area- Mark Sorrels says on Wednesday afternoon “We should be able to start again tomorrow afternoon.” (meaning later today.)
Nash area– Jason Skaggs, Branch Manager for Farmers Grain reports on Wednesday evening “Harvest was in full swing around the Nash area until we received another 2 inches of rain last night(overnight Tuesday-Wednesday). We have taken in around 250,000 bushels. Test weights still good with high protein levels. Yields are really good so far. Hope to get started again Friday.
Newkirk- Curtis Vap reports on Wednesday morning- “We finished wheat harvest on the 18th last year. No idea when we’ll start this year. Have had 12 inches of rain this month.”
Kay County (posted by Tom Cannon on Wednesday morning) “We started a week back harvesting for a couple of evenings. 14.5 % range on moisture. We have now had an excess of 6 inches of rain since then.
“We are in Kay County Oklahoma and the yields were close to double what I expected with incredibly good fill in the heads. Up to five berries per mesh.
“First little Field we did was about 100 acres and made over 70 bushel per acre. Second field was what I thought very poor and made almost 50 bushel per acre.
“The last Field was 60 acres that had 40 bu straw and yielded 78 bu per acre.
“All three fields were Butler‘s gold that we purchased from Don Schieber. (Thank you Don)
“Quite a bit of damage (wind/rain) since then and the Chikaskia River is expected to hit 33 feet which is 4 foot above flood stage. I pray it doesn’t as this kind of a flood would take out many thousands of acres of great looking crops in the bottoms.”
The tide may be turning as our wheat belt in Oklahoma may have fewer showers the next few days and temperatures well into the 90s. With all the rain we have seen- there will be lots of humidity as well- but restarting later today and/or Friday seems more likely in most locations. Here’s teh last 24 hours as of early Thursday morning:
Pray for our farmers as they try to harvest the balance of the 2025 hard red winter wheat crop across the southern plains.
