Nearly 50 percent of this year's winter wheat has been planted in southeast Kansas.

 

That's according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Numbers in southeast Kansas are well behind the statewide average of 70 percent. Winter wheat emerged is listed at 32 percent, near the state average of 38 percent. K-State Research and Extension Wildcat District Crop Agent James Coover says the lack of rainfall is delaying wheat progress.

 

Wheat is a little more on track in Oklahoma, with 64 percent planted and 31 percent emerged, which is closer to being on track but still a little behind when compared with the five-year average.