Although the 2013 Kansas winter wheat crop may be bigger than originally forecasted, this year’s harvest is still anticipated to be down 14 percent from last year, according to National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Western Kansas fared only slightly better than half of last year’s crop.

In WaKeeney, the grain was moving out by train Wednesday from the Cargill elevator  :

Elevator employee Caleb Favrycky says although Trego County farmers abandoned some acres due to drought, freeze and hailstorms, the Cargill elevators in WaKeeney and Collyer took in just a little less than two million bushes of wheat.

Just like many Kansas farmers, Favrycky is ever-optimistic.

“We’ll see what fall brings.  Maybe more milo and corn, that kind of thing, ” he hopes.