Heads Up: Wheat Farmers

The dry soil has been far less than ideal for planting the 2022 winter wheat crop. The good news is that rain is on the way.

Here is the National Weather Service's 7-day rainfall forecast ending at 6pm, Friday, October 2.

After the above forecast was published, the rainfall amount forecast from the ECMWF model, the world's most accurate, became available. Here is the ten-day rainfall amount forecast for the winter wheat belt. 

Kansas and Nebraska 

Texas and Oklahoma 

Things are looking up.