Rains this week in the U.S. Plains arrived too late to help much of the winter wheat in Oklahoma, the No. 2 U.S. producer of the grain, where farmers will soon begin harvesting the smallest crop in eight years, a state wheat official said Thursday.
"Unfortunately I do think it is a little too late in most instances for us," Mike Schulte, executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, said of this week's precipitation.
About 69% of the U.S. crop was in an area experiencing drought as of May 3, the USDA has said, including most major wheat areas of Oklahoma and top producer Kansas. Heavy rains this week could actually threaten the state's wheat by either knocking over mature plants and making them difficult to harvest, or raising the risk of diseases for plants that are still developing.
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