PGI HRW Harvest Summary July 2 2020

The 2020 HRW wheat harvest continues to roll northward across the central US as harvest weather remains favorable with hot, dry windy weather in all areas now cutting.  Texas and Oklahoma are virtually done in both states, now at 99% complete with harvest.  Kansas is now 70% complete with harvest and starting to wind down in the southern half of the state while in full swing in the northwestern 1/3 of the state.  Cutting has now crossed the Kansas/Nebraska line with limited harvesting starting in extreme southern Nebraska.  Like much of the western wheat producing areas of the central US, environmental weather conditions during the final stages of crop development caused more rapidly maturity of the crop.  The southwestern corner of the Nebraska remains in D2 (moderate drought) as defined by the National Drought Monitor.  Colorado is now 19% complete with harvest and mainly confined to the southeast Colorado.  Southeastern Colorado and southwestern Kansas experienced hot dry weather during late phases of plant development and remain in D3 drought (extreme drought) as defined by the National Drought Monitor…