Winter wheat in cold country

Mike (WA) · Jan 26, 2014

Just curious- do your guys in the Dakotas and Minnesota grow any winter wheat or barley? Lots of it in the regular rotation in eastern Washington, but they worry about it freezing out if we get a cold snap without snow cover. "Cold snap" is an understatement for you guys this winter, with more on the way, I guess. . .

Bob · Jan 26, 2014

I am in north central ND. A few of the neighbors grow winter wheat and have for years. It"s never been grown on my farm, but a close neighbor has grown it for years, and again put in, I"m guessing, 300-400 acres.
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Bruce from Can. · Jan 26, 2014

Most of the wheat growen here is winter wheat, say80%. Drilled in behind the combine after soy is off. Not uncommon to see a combine on one side of the field , and a seed drill no-tilling wheat on the other side.

Case Nutty 1660 · Jan 26, 2014

for the last 40 years I grew winter wheat here in NE Wyoming, if we had no snow cover you could lose some to "winter kill" as we called it but that was not the norm at all, our elevator quit handling wheat two year ago and I have to haul in 150 miles one way so I changed gears and went to specialty crops, Hay Bit brand Hay Barley sells very well for me here and the rest is Oat production as I can sell all of them I can grow, it is a bit of a pain to have to plant all spring crops but we do what we have to I guess
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old harv · Jan 26, 2014

Here in North Eastern Ontario near New Liskeard people grow winter wheat, but only get a crop one year in five. A BTO that my son used to work for told him that the one year it works they make good money on it, and the other four years insurance covers their costs, and they just replant to something else. I don't intend to try it.

wheat straw · Jan 26, 2014

It's interesting to see who grows what and how it does in different parts of the country. Here in Arkansas we grow soft red winter wheat. We used to grow a lot of fall seeded oats for the dairy and in our climate seldom had a freeze out. I remember two years when it got below 0*F and froze out the oats. Oats will overwinter better if pastured in the fall. I balled some oats in 2013. Exelent hay, however the rodents realy go after it.

Have a nice day.

Andy

wijim · Jan 26, 2014

Here in Wisconsin we grow a lot of winter wheat. The snow cover is a big plus and when we have little snow not so bad. The trouble is when we get rain and then it freezes that will kill a lot of wheat. Jim

Bob Bancroft · Jan 26, 2014

And I thought it was all spring wheat up there?!

oldtanker · Jan 26, 2014

Here it's about 50-50. Some guys plant winter wheat and others spring.

I doing spring wheat this year.

Rick

Bob Bancroft · Jan 26, 2014

There's not as much wheat here in central NY as there used to be. Western NY is more wheat country. Used to be white winter, now it's mostly red winter. Spring wheat doesn't do as well here, plus we don't get much of a spring.
We can get any kind of weather, and in any combination. Wheat generally takes it all in stride until it breaks dormancy in the spring. Then it's usually too wet here, which hurts it. But a heavy, wet snow will smother it. Only get a mediocre yield after that.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2014

soft red winter wheat in southern ill

Bill in Colo · Jan 26, 2014

Hard red winter is the norm my area we can only grow Utah and Idaho varieties here because of darf bunt smut. We lose wheat when we push 90 days straight of snow cover. Early planted wheat tends to fair worse than late planted, but early planted wheat yields better. If wheat winter kills we redrill with hard red spring with no tilliage.

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