Kansas wheat forecast to be smallest since 1996

Published May 9, 2014 8:49pm ET



WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is expected to produce its smallest winter wheat crop since 1996, an indication of a deepening drought across the nation’s wheat belt, the government said Friday in its first official forecast of the growing season.

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