date:Apr 09, 2013
ents are overhyped; however, this one was the real deal. I traveled a route from Faxon to Chattanooga to Altus to Blair and ended up at Apache. Damage was similar at all sites, with injury ranging from 50% to 80%. The best looking wheat was the hardest hit.
Particularly troubling are some fields in the Altus area that easily had 80 bus (per acre) potential prior to the freeze, Mr. Edwards said. In most of these fields we are too far past the tillering stage to have yield compensation from secon