How's the wheat?

I just knew as soon as I put my weather woes in print everything would change.

Finally, real winter weather!

I've been wondering, though. How has the winter wheat fared though these unusually dry winter months? I remember a conversation I had with a friend, some years ago, regarding an early spring snow melt on the Plateau and how it exposed the little wheat shoots to potentially damaging frost.

Has this odd winter weather had an injurious affect on the wheat? If so, what happens in the spring? When wheat crops are wiped out by frost, do farmers replant with a different species of wheat or plant a different crop altogether?

I guess it's time again for me to do a little curiosity satiating research.

I do hope the little wheat-lings are hanging in there. Adam's family are orchardists. I understand how crop damage can make for a very tough year.