Kingfisher County is on the verge of completing a quick and excellent wheat harvest.

Local elevator operators predicted the harvest would be winding up this week. Some areas were already complete.

CHS Elevator at Okarche, Okarche Grain and Feed, west of Okarche, and CHS Elevator in Kingfisher were closed on Sunday, indicative that they were approaching harvest’s close. All reported high quality held up right to the end.

Chris Townsley at CHS Elevator in Kingfisher said a few harvesters who ran into equipment problems were still engaged but the rush is over.

“We’re done,” said Okarche Grain and Feed manager Gary Altizer, who reported a bigger harvest than last year.

All other county elevator operators expressed confidence the harvest would wrap up by mid- or late-week.

Heavy grain weights continued to be the norm as final fields were harvested, many fields producing grain weighing 65 pounds a bushel or even heavier when 60 bushel per acre wheat is considered No. 1.

Reports from elevator managers follow:

Wheeler Brothers Grain Elevator, Kingfisher, was “wrapping ‘er up,” said Manager Randal Varnell Sunday. “We’re even thinking of slipping out of here in a little bit,” Varnell said.

Quality remained high right to the end, he said.

“It was a very good and very fast harvest, Varnell added.

B.J. Waeger, site manager at Wheeler Brothers Elevator at Omega, predicted that area would be done by the end of the day Sunday.

The county has experienced dry, warm weather throughout harvest, helping speed it along.

“Farmers have been able to start harvesting at 9 in the morning, rather waiting until the afternoon to start cutting due to the dry conditions,” Waeger said.

Weights have routinely run 60 pounds and above.

“Moisture has been great, he said with wheat routinely running under the 13.5 percent moisture necessary to store it.

Eugene Roach, Omega CHS Elevator site manager, reported similar results with expectations that elevator’s customers would be done harvesting by Tuesday.

Cashion Grain and Feed Elevator Manager John Schaefer reported the harvest there was winding up much earlier than normal with only a couple of producers bringing in wheat there on Sunday. He expected it to wind up completely this week.

Grain has been high quality and dry from start to finish, Schaefer said.

Hennessey CHS Elevator had only four producers delivering wheat on Sunday and one of them was almost through. A spokesperson predicted the harvest would be completed completely by the end of this week.