Smoke filled air will become less common now that producers are wrapping up their spring burning.

Chuck Otte, Geary County Research and Extensions Agent, explained that he believes that their may be a few patches that will be burned but a majority of the producers that wanted to burn have already done it.

“I saw quite a bit of smoke earlier this week from some fires and I think that’s going to pretty much wrap some things up. The grass is starting to green up, we’re starting to see some new shoots come up,” Otte said.

He also mentioned that some producers that wanted to burn early did hold off due to dry conditions.

Geary County is in a severe drought and it is effecting this years wheat crop as well.

“I was out looking at wheat this morning (Wednesday), there is some very obvious drought damage showing up in a lot of wheat fields. The wheat crop is going to be short, the wheat head is already halfway up the stem. That’s not that far off from normal but its just the stocks are awfully short.”

Otte said that if the area does not receive significant rain fall in the next ten days it will become a real problem.