{"id":19604,"date":"2015-04-13T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19604"},"modified":"2015-04-13T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:51:06","slug":"drought-takes-toll-on-winter-wheat-in-western-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19604","title":{"rendered":"Drought takes toll on winter wheat in western Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WICHITA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Rains which swept through parts of Kansas this weekend missed vast stretches of parched winter wheat crops in western Kansas.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 28 percent of the wheat in Kansas is in poor to very poor condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But weather forecasts are predicting heavy rains in western Kansas and eastern Colorado later this week, followed by another generous round of rain expected next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Western Kansas could receive as much as 3 inches total from those two upcoming storm systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Agricultural meteorologist Don Keeney of MDA Weather Services says that won&#8217;t end the drought, but it will be very good for the wheat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Maryland-based commodity risk firm is now forecasting the 2015 winter wheat crop will come in at 292 million bushels in Kansas.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WICHITA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Rains which swept through parts of Kansas this weekend missed vast stretches of parched winter wheat crops in western Kansas. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397],"tags":[1335,5601,5443,5437,5438,5441,5602],"class_list":["post-19604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","tag-drought","tag-kansas-drought","tag-kansas-farmer","tag-kansas-wheat","tag-wheat-crop","tag-winter-wheat","tag-winter-wheat-kansas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19606,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19604\/revisions\/19606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}