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To: Red Badger
Let's not panic yet.

https://kansasreflector.com/2022/06/14/kansas-wheat-quality-expected-to-be-high-despite-drop-in-yield-after-yearslong-drought/

Kansas wheat quality expected to be high despite drop in yield after yearslong drought

LAWRENCE — Kansas’ wheat quality is estimated to be above average and high in protein this year because of a lack of rain, according to Farmers Business Network’s senior commodity analyst Rejeana Gvillo.

Such findings from a mid-May wheat tour through Kansas conducted by the Wheat Quality Council are the good news. The bad news is an estimated 100 million bushel drop in wheat yield production for the state, according to U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall as he testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee in Washington, D.C., last week.

“I think that about 30% of our average yield is going to be impacted by drought this year,” Marshall said. “That’s a value of over a billion dollars to the state of Kansas.”

A persistent La Niña weather pattern that has failed to give way over the past three years facilitates hotter and drier weather conditions for the United States’ key production areas, according to Gvillo.

On the other hand, the dry weather has produced perfect conditions for little pest and fungus damage, resulting in higher quality wheat. Millers tend to pay more for higher quality wheat, according to Kansas State University.

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22 posted on 06/22/2022 5:48:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Yo-Yo
I hope that you are preparing accordingly.

Key pull quote from the original article. You will also note some actual prepper type food purchase ads in the article. Somehow those always seem to be included in these food apocalypse articles. Almost makes a person wonder if there is an underlying agenda.

39 posted on 06/22/2022 7:12:25 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
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