Source: Rhonda Garrison, SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 4/19/17

While the weather has cooled some here in the first few days after Easter, the prior ten days to two weeks were warm and dry, helping the region’s winter wheat grow out of the cold shock from mid-March, and get back on track.  Dan Weathington, Executive Director of the North Carolina Small Grain Growers Association says the crop has moved into heading in most of the state: “Yes, you know agriculture is a lesson on patience and endurance, and certainly that’s what supplied our wheat crop this year."

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