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Article: Kansas Wheat Hardier Than Expected
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- May 2, 2002
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) _ Kansas farmers stomping through hundreds of fields
on their annual wheat tour of the state are finding better-than-expected
stands of wheat among the struggling crop.
"It is not too bad, but everywhere you go it is dry," Brett Myers,
executive vice president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers,
said on a stop near Garden City. "There is not an abundance of moisture
anywhere we went."
The tour took off Tuesday from Manhattan, with participants stopping
at 230 fields along the top tier of counties.
On Thursday, the group was to leave Wichita and finish in Kansas City,
where they will release their annual statewide estimate ...