The Arkansas winter wheat harvest normally doesn't start until early June but combines are already rolling in southeast Arkansas, thanks to the warm spring that enabled the crop to mature early.

"By Monday, if it does not rain, harvest will be full swing," Gus Wilson, Chicot County extension staff chair for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said. "We're a strong 12-16 days ahead of schedule."

JULY CHICAGO WHEAT (electronic ok)

(5/10): Wheat ended mixed in consolidation trade, Brownfield Ag News reported. USDA raised the winter wheat production estimate to 1.69 billion bushels, up 13% on the year with hard red winter up 32% and soft red down 6%. Still, the Ag Department lowered old crop ending stocks and new crop stocks were smaller than expected.

JULY CHICAGO WHEAT (electronic ok)

(5/9): Wheat ended lower on technical selling and spillover from corn, soybeans, and the outside markets, Brownfield Ag News reported. Wheat’s fundamentals remain bearish, particularly on the global supply side of the balance sheet. USDA’s expected to increase the winter wheat production estimate while lowering old crop ending stocks. European wheat was mixed with nearbys up sharply ahead of their expiration.

JULY CHICAGO WHEAT (electronic ok)

(5/8): Wheat ended mixed with Chicago and Kansas City up on short covering and Minneapolis was on planting progress, Brownfield Ag News reported. Ahead of the open, a group of South Korean feedmills picked up two 23,000 ton cargoes of U.S. wheat. Additionally, several South Korean feedmills purchased 36,100 tons of Australian feed wheat and South Korea’s Major Feedmill bought 112,000 tons of optional origin wheat.