Yes, It always helps if a man can get some rain during the later part of the growing season. Of course we're used to dry so we just settle for temps under 90 and no wind. Got very hot and dry during fill, so there went the yield. Actually got into some stuff that looked like 60 pound T.W. today and that field may have run 50 bpa. Sometimes good heavy ground can surprise a guy with just what it can do.

Don't let the color of the ripe wheat mislead you. This variety is called McNiel, it's characteristic color is a dark copper when it is ripe. One of it's other characteristics is a few heads mixed in, that are the usual yellow color of ripe wheat. You can probably pick out the odd-balls in the pictures.