By Bill Spiegel
Kansas Wheat
 

MANHATTAN  -- The 2009 Kansas Hard Red Winter wheat crop exceeded quality expectations, a credit to improved wheat varieties and farmer production practices, according to Justin Gilpin, chief executive officer of Kansas Wheat.

MANHATTAN - For nearly seven decades, Kansas wheat producers have been advised of the "Hessian Fly-Free Date," a calendar date which, by planting afterward, was theoretically intended to prevent problems with Hessian Fly infestations in wheat. Kansas State University Extension Entomology publishes a map with "Fly-Free Dates," which is available online here.