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REPORT: Winter Wheat Planting 84% Complete

(AP) – A new government report says Kansas farmers have now seeded 84% of their 2012 winter wheat crop.

Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that the pace of wheat planting is about the same as last year. About 56% of the wheat has now emerged.

The agency also says the harvest of fall crops was slowed last week by much needed-rainfall.

The corn harvest was about 75% complete as of Sunday. About 59% of the state’s soybeans have been cut, along with 25% of the sorghum.

Winter feeding season is approaching, and the report says that supplies of hay and forage supplies are rated 56% short to very short across Kansas.

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