How bad really was the frost?

[malleefarmer]

From down under the US crop each year lives and dies about 3 times plus numerous other problems but they always seem to cut good crops so in reality how bad was the frost.
I do understand it may not be until harvest when true extent is known.
Seems the markets have it factored in.

[Burbert]

The reports, indicate that the frost was quite severe. Our weather here in North America has been really crazy and cold this Spring. But and its a big butt, there is so much lying, cheating and stealing going on in the grain industry. It is very hard to even get the truth from weather reports. In Canada, we are having a cold,wet Spring, planting will be delayed, input prices are WAY up, grain prices have moved upwards a bit. The Ag industry is in turmoil generally. There an honest report from one farmer to another. Watch the sniveling and crying now, from industry stooges that will try to refute what I've told you!!

[melvill]

The US HRW wheat tour starts today - May 1. The tour, sponsored
by the US Wheat Quality Council, begins today in Manhattan, Kan., and
wraps up Thursday in Kansas City, Mo. An estimated 58 crop scouts, from the milling and baking industries,
universities and the media, will survey wheat-producing areas across
the state, with some also venturing into northern Oklahoma and southern
Nebraska.

On Thursday afternoon, final yield estimates for the state's 2007 US
hard red winter wheat crop will be released.

Source: ProFarmer Canada

[melvill]

Wheat fields sampled on May 1, Day 1 of the Wheat Quality Council HRW (hard red
winter) tour, showed variable freeze damage across northern and central areas of Kansas. Fields on routes from Manhattan, Kansas, to Colby, Kansas, showed an estimated average yield of 40 bu/per acre versus 40.6 bu/acre on similarly located fields last year. A spokesman for the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers-Kansas Wheat Commission said, "We are pleasantly surprised. There is some freeze damage, but I'm actually shocked at how little damage we're seeing."

Crop scouts touring parts of Colorado this week estimated average yields of 33.3 bu/acre. Scouts will assess fields along the western third of the state today. ProFarmer Canada