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How bad was winter for wheat? In Kansas, we're about to see

By Jeff Wilson, Bloomberg News
Apr 30, 2018
Apr 30, 2018 Updated May 1, 2018

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More than 90 traders, farmers and other interested parties will head out into the plains of Kansas on Tuesday with the aim of finding out just how tough it’s really been for this season’s hard red winter wheat crop.

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