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Midwest's Winter Wheat Acreage Lowest in 100 Years

By Bryan Thompson
Published January 16, 2017 at 6:45 AM CST
Harvest Public Media is a reporting project, focused on food, fuel, farms and other stories affecting the rural Midwest.
Harvest Public Media is a reporting project, focused on food, fuel, farms and other stories affecting the rural Midwest.

This past fall, farmers in the Midwest planted the smallest winter wheat crop in a century.  For Harvest Public Media, Bryan Thompson explains why.

Bryan Thompson is a reporter for the Kansas News Service and a contributor to Harvest Public Media.

 
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Bryan Thompson
Bryan Thompson has been KPR's Health Reporter since 2000. He's a lifelong Kansan, and a graduate of Wichita State University. He's been involved in radio news longer than he'd care to admit, serving as news director at stations in El Dorado, Liberal, and Salina before joining KPR. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six outstanding children--one of whom now looks down on them from above. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys music and sports.
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