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Posted by Howard H. on February 06, 2007 at 14:20:06 from (164.58.210.24):
In Reply to: hard red winter wheat posted by Dave from MN on February 06, 2007 at 12:45:33:
I've always liked raising wheat. It is fun grinding fresh wheat into flour and making bread. Nothing better than fresh-baked bread from wheat out of the bin! Out here in West Texas - planting tends to be from late August to mid-October. Seeding rates are often around 20-45 pounds of seed per acre for dryland, up to 120-200 pounds of seed per acre for irrigated. Usually, the guys putting out that much seed plan on grazing it heavily and will plant early. The rancher that used to put cattle on my wheat every year averaged 3.2 pounds per day gain on several hundred head the last year we did that - but that was several years back. Dryland yields are variable, but 20-30 bushels/acre is a decent/good crop. Irrigated can make 80-110 per acre for a very good crop. It used to be easy to grow pretty good yields - but the past few years have seemed pretty tough. Insect pressures, drought, disease, etc, have all combined for some poor years, but this year is really looking great so far with early moisture and all this snow. Don't know how much of this translates to MN! HH
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