1.   At last the green straw, which had plagued wheat harvest from the start, had disappeared.

2.   As of last week, the wheat harvest had surpassed the average for this time of year, an Agriculture Department report said.

3.   But every summer, Caspar would return to the Kansas farm that has been in his family for five generations so he could help with the wheat harvest.

4.   Down in Wellington, Kan., where the wheat harvest often begins, words of optimism were spoken.

5.   Even though a six-month drought decimated some winter wheat fields, a bumper spring wheat harvest eased lean inventories.

6.   Expectations are building that the wheat harvest in June and July could eclipse current forecasts.

7.   Farmers completed the wheat harvest in January and escaped the effects of the drought.

8.   Furthermore, Iraq may be exporting grain illegally, rather than using a bumper wheat harvest to bolster domestic food stocks, some diplomats and officials suspect.

9.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices closed lower Wednesday as progress continued in the spring wheat harvest.

10.   Kansas had its second largest wheat harvest on record this year, but the price of wheat has been going down.