Kansas Wheat Conditions May 2000

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05/05/00 – Landsat TM, Ch. 4,5,3 = RGB  - Barton Co., Kansas
May 5, 2000 Barton Co., Kansas - Landsat TM image

For the 2000 wheat crop, crop stage ahead of normal and ahead of recent years (see ground photos). The darker red fields are wheat that are heading and further advanced than wheat seen in this same area on May 19, 1999.  The orange fields are alfalfa.

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USDA, Foreign Agriculture Service,
Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division (PECAD)
10/20/03