We like to go into the season, into the growing season in May with a good four or five inches of good soil moisture. We don't have that right now, and that's critical.

Everyday that we do not get significant precipitation, the potential of the wheat crop from a grain standpoint is going down. The sooner we get the precipitation the better. In some fields, we're already past the critical stage and other fields we're coming upon it.

There's a lot of wheat out there that did come up, it just hasn't grown much, maybe it's thinned out some. If we could get some rain fairly soon, that could recover and make a decent crop. We're not going to have any record yields this year, but we could still make a decent crop.

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