After two straight days of rain that was great for the fall crops but not so much for the 2018 wheat crop, farmers are hoping for a few dry days to finish up the wheat harvest in Central Kansas. Great Bend COOP Grain Merchandiser Matt Penka says so far in this area the harvest has been a mix of both good and bad depending on where your fields were.

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Penka expects farmers to be busy the next few days finishing up on this years harvest with favorable cutting conditions expected through Saturday night.

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Monday’s crop condition and progress report from USDA indicated that 52-percent of the wheat crop in Kansas had been harvested which was ahead of the 44-percent cut a year ago and well ahead of the 32-percent five-year average.