KANSAS CITY — Quality small grain crops have been hard to come by recently. Too much moisture occurred in the central U.S. Plains during the hard red winter wheat harvest season, and wheat quality declined greatly in parts of Europe from France to Poland in July and early August. Dryness problems reduced wheat production in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and western Argentina is having a tough time getting its 2015 crop established because of dryness. Now the biggest threat to wheat is in the northernU.S. Plainsrainfall during the Aug. 23-25 period and the weekend prior to that generated 1.5 to 4 inches of rain in portions of western and central North Dakota and northern South Dakota. The same weekend that produced heavy rain in Montana also produced light to moderate rain in the Dakotas and northward from there into southern parts of the Canadian Prairies.
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