This year's winter wheat harvest is wrapping up across the area.
According to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, the Kansas wheat harvest is 93 percent complete, near 96 percent complete last year, but ahead of the 88 percent average.
Overall yields for the 2025 crop ranged from slightly below average to excellent, depending on region and weather impacts. While many areas reported strong test weights and good protein levels, rain during harvest lowered grain quality in some locations, leading to yield losses and occasional field abandonment.
MKC Executive Vice President Erik Lange tells the Kansas Wheat Commission that in Sumner, Harper and Cowley counties, test weights have dropped after rains on the ripe wheat, but the region is averaging 58 pounds per bushel. Protein is averaging 11%, and yields are varied by location. Wheat streak mosaic and related viruses caused yield and quality loss. Early-season drought and stand issues also affected yields. Locations are still taking grain in south central and central Kansas and hope to be finished by mid-week.
In Labette and Neosho counties, Lange says both hard and soft wheat yields were average to below average and quality suffered from rain during harvest, with some wheat lying down. Test weights have been challenged by the rain on mature wheat, and there is some abandonment. Winter wheat harvested in southeast Kansas is listed at 92%.
