Help A Dummy Again?

Will you guys bale me out of the fire again?

I don't know squat about dryland farming; it's just a foreign thing to me as I've always been irrigated.

Anyway, I have some tired old alfalfa fields that have to be rotated into something for next year. I'm thinking about plowin' it up this fall and seeding it to spring wheat early on next year.

Is spring wheat just hard red winter wheat that is planted in the spring vs the fall, or is it a totally different kind?

Thanks,

Allan

That's what I needed to know.

The wife and I stopped and talked to the neighbor on Saturday and I off-handedly asked him how his wheat did this year. He said the worst of it came in at 42 bushel per acre and it ran all the way to 62.

This prompted me to ask what was going on, as I was accustomed to seeing dryland wheat in the 30 bushel range.

He says that they now have a variety called "Jagger" (I think) that just about doubles old seed types, but that it costs in the range of $17 a bushel for initial seed stock.

Those kinds of yields really helps the penciling quite a little.

Who knows? Perhaps now is the time that I should go find myself a quarter of a mil combine and go into debt up to my wrinkled old earlobes? :>)

Allan