Enjoy a look at the 55th tour, put on by the Wheat Quality Council.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
Around 100 wheat scouts, the largest group ever, are crisscrossing Kansas, as well as parts of Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma as part of the 55th annual Hard Winter Wheat Tour.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
The highlighted roads are the routes 20 vehicles will take during the 2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
A veteran wheat scout, Terry Selleck , shows others how to count spikelets on a wheat head.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
Wheat scout, Craig Warner, measures row width and counts the number of wheat heads within 12 inches.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
Three diseases, stripe rust, smut and wheat streak mosaic, were found in this Kansas field.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
In Holden County, Kan., we found a pretty dry wheat field that could use a drink of rain.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
A farmer in Nuckolls County, Neb., stopped to visit when he saw us sampling his field. He plans on cutting the field in mid-June.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
Normally during the Hard Winter Wheat Tour, you count stalks. But, this year, the crop is about three weeks ahead of schedule and most scouts are counting heads.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
Kansas State University’s Extension Crop Production Jim Shroyer shares a diseased wheat sample to scouts so they can identify any disease pressure in the fields.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
Here’s a look at one of the routes, which ventured into parts of southern Nebraska.
2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
The sun rises over a beautiful wheat field, just north of Manhattan, Kan.