Wheat Harvest Is Starting

1206SWMO

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My neighbor test cut some wheat north of my house this evening....Wheat harvest will be in full swing by Saturday or Sunday...I'm sure that some are going strong in the counties to the south of me..
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I'm betting I have a little more than a week. I hope so. I have to get some planting done and haven't turned the key on the combine since beans.
 
A fella from Tn. posted on newagtalk that his "poor" wheat was only making 85 bpa and the "good" wheat was 110 bpa. Guess I would be happy with his "poor" wheat.
 
I saw that...Yields like that are nearly impossible in my area...50-70 bushels is usually the norm....Once in awhile someone will get 80-90..Most hope to hit a good crop of beans after the wheat..
 
Remember, Hard wheat soft wheat yield differences. Here if you raise soft wheat there are few close locations to dump so you need to be able to Bin it.
Then there is all the humidity and leaf stripe rust and fungus etc. Last year I think or year before it was so wet and humid I think those who had wheat had to pay to get rid of. Tom
 
Its about all soft wheat here....Lots of the wheat was poor here last year and harvest didn't get over until the
middle of July because it was so wet....Its getting tougher and tougher to grow wheat in my area..
 
(quoted from post at 21:50:55 06/09/16) Its about all soft wheat here....Lots of the wheat was poor here last year and harvest didn't get over until the
middle of July because it was so wet....Its getting tougher and tougher to grow wheat in my area..

Blaine - I switched around my standard rotations this year to only put one field in SRW after getting shafted last year on the vomitoxin. We'll see what happens this year before I got back. Only thing for sure in wheat for next year is my son's 5 acres for his FFA project. Mike
 
When we used to raise Hard red winter wheat here we would get 80-100 BPA crops. Then about 20 years ago the rust and other funguses got so bad that the yields dropped. Only one fellow I know raising wheat around here and that is for the straw for bedding hog huts.
 
I tried some hard wheat in the early 1980's......It made 40 bpa while the soft was making 55-60 bpa..
 
Vomitoxin was terrible in my area last year..Had a friend that couldn't sell any of his wheat...Seems to be lots of
wheat this year,especially to the southwest of me..A few are giving up on it and just doing beans and corn..
 

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