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The combines and farm trucks are rolling in the wheat fields of North Central Kansas. The 2023 wheat crop has been through a variety of conditions during the growing season. Here is an update on Post Rock Extension District Wheat Demonstration Plot Tours that were held the end of May.

Annually, the Post Rock Extension District conducts face-to-face tours of the wheat demonstration plots around the district. This was held on Wednesday, May 31 at two locations in Jewell and Smith counties. The Smith County plot was abandoned after the plot tour, so it will not be harvested for yield. However, the variety signs are up in the Jewell County plot and the field location is posted on the website at http://www.postrock.ksu.edu under the "Crops" tab and then go to "Test Plots." So, if you would like to go by and take a look at the varieties in the Jewell County plot, the signs will be up until it is harvested.

Thanks to Shelly Garlow, the Post Rock Extension District Office professional in the Smith Center office, for recording the wheat demonstration plot tour at the Smith County location south of Lebanon. The Smith County wheat demonstration plot tour recording is posted on our "Crops" page, under "Test Plots." K-State research and extension agronomists along with myself provided information on each of the varieties along with conditions throughout the growing season.

The wheat variety plots provide a visual demonstration of how crop varieties perform in a particular area of the state along with yield potential of that variety. This is known as "seeing is believing! Producers who observe the demonstrations and the latest methods or practices, then may apply them to their own situations. Producers can then compare the yield data from the many experiment fields across Kansas, to this local yield data, in selecting the most adaptive and productive wheat varieties.