Wichita ? So much wheat has been abandoned in drought-plagued western Kansas that the state has no plans to open two of its harvest offices there this season.

The Kansas Department of Human Resources will not open harvest offices this year in Sublette and Tribune, said Barbara Deghand, the department’s wheat harvest publisher.

“Wheat there was almost nil,” she said Thursday.

Crop conditions are probably just as poor in the Liberal area, but its job service development office will handle whatever wheat harvest reporting there is this year in that region, she added.

The first state harvest offices opened Monday in Anthony and Caldwell.

The Anthony office reported 110,000 bushels of wheat was harvested Monday in Hartner and Kiowa, before rain halted harvest. Test weights were at 59 pounds per bushel, with moisture content of 11 percent.

It costs the state $60,000 to operate its 17 harvest offices, said wheat harvest coordinator Joyce Heiman.

Each wheat harvest in Kansas, the agency opens harvest offices across the state to match custom cutters with farmers who need acres harvested. Each office also typically reports the amount of bushels harvested each day in its area, as well as some crop quality information.