Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

Wheat Harvest Over, But County Producers Keep Chugging Along

While wheat harvest has concluded for 2019, ag producers have not slowed down one bit. They still have wheat to seed, crops to tend to, and bean, beet, millet and corn harvest.

Farming primarily in the northwestern and southern part of Kimball county, John Perry said they were about half done seeding their wheat. The varieties of wheat that they plant are Good Streak and SYWolf.

Perry, like the rest of the producers, are extremely pleased with the moisture.

“It’s wonderful,” he said.

Perry said everything is late. He figured that his corn needs until the end of the month to mature,...