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July 13th, 2018

The 2018 HRW wheat harvest continues to wind down in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and the southeastern ¼ of Colorado. Texas is now 94% complete, Oklahoma is 99% complete, Kansas is 95% complete […]Read More

July 6th, 2018

Strong thunderstorms producing heavy rain continue to slow the 2018 HRW wheat harvest, especially in eastern Colorado and northwest Kansas. Moving south to north, (Texas 87% complete and Oklahoma 99% complete), with […]Read More

June 29th, 2018

The 2018 HRW wheat harvest continued to make very slow progress this week as strong thunderstorms producing heavy rain moved across almost all areas that either had begun harvest (Colorado 7% complete […]Read More

June 22nd, 2018

The 2018 HRW wheat harvest came to an almost complete stop this week when a solid line of intense thunderstorms producing localized areas of very heavy rainfall ((> 9” (23 cm)) and […]Read More

June 15th, 2018

Harvesting of the 2018 HRW wheat crop continues to swiftly move northward as abundant sunshine and hot temperatures have been the rule across most of the central and southern Great Plains where […]Read More

June 8th, 2018

The 2018 HRW wheat harvest raced northward over the past seven days with harvest now underway as far north as southern Kansas. However, progress was significantly slowed Thursday by locally heavy rain […]Read More

June 1st, 2018

The 2018 HRW wheat harvest has been progressing rapidly over the 7 to 10 days. While wheat was being cut in central Texas early last week, harvest began in southwest Oklahoma late […]Read More

Harvest reports will resume mid-May. Plains Grains, Inc. (PGI) is a private, nonprofit wheat marketing organization dedicated to providing the link between producers of hard red winter (HRW) wheat, grain companies, and […]Read More

September 8th, 2017

This will be the final weekly 2017 US HRW Harvest Summary as harvest is now complete including all grade and non-grade testing on individual wheat samples. There continue to be many similarities […]Read More

September 1st, 2017

The 2017 US HRW wheat harvest is now complete. There are 488 samples now in the lab and this will be the total (final) number of samples for evaluation of the 2017 […]Read More