Moisture is okay right now, but Geary County Extension Agent Chuck Otte said Friday but the county “is not awash in moisture literally.”

Otte stated the crops were planted in good shape last fall, and there was adequate fall growth. “We were lucky that we had the snow cover here. You get over to Salina and points west, not very far west, and they had some freeze damage. They’re going to have a lot more winter kill than we had here.”

Otte added if Geary County doesn’t begin to get some rain in the next two to three weeks the wheat crop will be dry.  “It’s going to go that fast. Warm weather, we get these windy conditions, wheat is really starting to green up and grow fast, it’s going to use up all that available moisture before long.”

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