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Just 10 percent of the state’s wheat waits to be harvested, according to Mark Hodges, executive director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission. And those acres are mostly those of farmers with larger acreage that had limited access to combines at the end of the harvest cycle or those that have had to go slow because of soft ground after heavy rains.

While yields were better than expected in most areas of the state, our beloved Panhandle didn’t dare as well.  Dry conditions in Beaver County and full-blown drought in Texas and Cimarron counties meant almost no dryland wheat in 2008 —  Beaver County did have some decent dryland yields all the way up to the low thirties per acre — while the yields were extremely low to about half normal yields for irrigated fields.