Re: O/T Straw Bedding

Posted by BOBM25 on December 06, 2006 at 06:06:40 from (69.68.42.16):

In Reply to: O/T Straw Bedding posted by Leee on December 06, 2006 at 04:39:31:

I'd sow oats in the spring. I don't think winter wheat will do much if its planted in the spring. Lotta guys are asking that question here in NW Ohio. Winter wheat is in most guys crop rotation, and the straw is baled and sold. The big straw guys will make 50-75,000 little squares a year. Only this year about half of the wheat got sowed cuz it was so wet. Nobody really knows for sure, but the general conscensious is that winter wheat sowed in the spring will still go dormant after it comes up. Our springs aren't warm enough to keep it from not. Then it loses out on growth time and is too young to handle summer heat stress. Wheat doesn't normally "mature" here, it just gets close, then dies. Thats why our kernals are small and test weights aren't normally real good. Our wheat makes cookies and crackers, not bread. I was always told spring wheat from the south like Tx makes bread. Anyway, because you probably don't care about all that, oats are cheep and are normally sowed in the spring, plus the straw is about like wheat straw only a little dirtier

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