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Kansas July 8 Wheat Harvest Report: Harvest Mostly Complete, Muddy Fields Hinder Progress

Kansas Wheat Harvest Report—This is day 14 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association and Kansas Wheat.

Kansas harvest is still underway as Kansas Ag Statistics reports that 79 percent of Kansas wheat is harvested.

Some green fields remain, as do a few more in which the ground is too muddy.

Larry Glenn reports that Frontier Ag Inc, Quinter, pretty well finished up with harvest over the holiday weekend.

They are probably 80-85% harvested with test weights averaging 60.5 lbs with some protein.

Yields range from total losses from tornadoes and hail up to 60 bushels per acre.

Ted Schultz with Team Marketing Alliance reports that company-wide they are 90% done.

A few of their locations north of I-70, including Talmage, Longford, and Bennington, are still harvesting.

In this central portion of Kansas, yields range from 40 to 70 bushels per acre with test weights averaging about 60 pounds per bushel and protein levels in the low 11’s.

Surprisingly, harvest is still underway in Sumner County as farmers wait for fields to dry up.

Doris Lawrence with Farmers Coop Grain Association, Wellington, reports that some farmers are still dealing with mudholes as they struggle to harvest wheat from their last few fields.

Pace at the elevator is still running about half of a normal, full-swing harvest, but they are definitely having a better harvest than 2007.

In the Phillipsburg area there are a few farmers done with harvest but most are about half complete. Melody Hanchett, with Rangeland Coop Inc, expects they will be harvesting through the rest of week.

The wheat coming in is dry with test weights over 60 pounds.

The harvest is good overall with just a few fields that have lodged from the June rains.

Ken Ketter, manager for the Kanorado Coop Association, Kanorado reports that a rain on Sunday has delayed cutting in the northwestern part of Kansas.

They are about half finished and the quality of the wheat is excellent. Drought conditions significantly stressed the crop, which results in low yields, but test weights are averaging more than 62 lbs per bushel.

The 2008 Harvest Salute to Producers is brought to you by Kansas Wheat in conjunction with sponsors the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain and the Kansas Grain and Feed Association.

For more information, call 785-539-0255

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Commodities to be given away

Commodities will be distributed Wednesday through the USDA Emergency Food Assistance Program.

To be eligible, families must meet income guidelines and provide proof of all monthly household income and valid identification and Social Security numbers for all people living in the home.

People should bring sacks or boxes to carry the food home.

Items to be given away are grapefruit juice, corn flakes, chicken, peanut butter, orange juice, green beans and beef stew.

The food distribution will be noon to 2 p.m. at the 4-H Building in Kenwood Park.

Food will be distributed at the Vetrans of Foreign Wars Hall in Minneapolis 3:30-5:30 p.m. and at the United Church of Bennington in Bennington 4-6 p.m.

For information, call Marva Weller, 827-3644.

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The Kansas Highway Patrol said Joseph Patrick Pantera, 21, of Bennington, was northbound on Solomon Road, just north of Interstate 70, when the 2005 Dodge Neon he was driving went into a ditch and jumped a dirt berm, coming to a rest on its side.

Pantera and a passenger, Britney J. Sandmeier, 18, of Ogden, were reported injured and were transported to a Salina hospital. Both had been wearing their seat belts.

The accident occurred a few minutes after midnight.

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Two hurt in Dickinson County crash

APRIL MIDDLETON
Two people were injured just after midnight Tuesday in a one-car crash in Dickinson County.

The car was going north on Solomon Road, less than a mile north of Interstate Highway 70, when it left the east side of the road, went into the ditch and jumped a dirt berm, according to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol.

The driver, Joseph Pantera, 21, Bennington, was treated at Salina Regional Health Center. His passenger, Britney Sandmeier, 18, Ogden, was admitted to the Salina hospital. Her condition wasn’t available Tuesday evening.

Both Pantera and Sandmeier were wearing seat belts.

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A Bennington girl was injured when she lost control of her car, which slid off an embankment north of Salina Thursday afternoon.
According to the Saline County Sheriff’s Office, Hannah Bradley, 17, was driving north on Ohio Street and apparently lost control of her car shortly after cresting a hill at the intersection of Ohio and Frisbie streets, where the road turns to gravel.
Bradley’s car went off the east side of the road, went down a steep embankment and tore through a barbed-wire fence before coming to rest.
She was taken by ambulance to Salina Regional Health Center, where she was still being assessed Thursday evening.

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