Townsend, Montana | Triticum Agricolam - 6/7/2024 17:58
Very interesting, thanks for posting this! What was the seeding date?
I thought we seeded at pretty low rates in my neck of the woods compared to other places. Lots of folks seed winter wheat on fallow ground at 45-60 lbs per acre where I'm at, but you've really got those number beat.
So 20 bu is your yield goal? Please post what the yield results are after harvest I'm really curious to see the difference.
20 something of September.
I'm mostly irrigated and just started dabbling in dryland because the neighbor let me have it for free for a couple years to clean it up and get it planted to grass.
I was told I should plant 1 to 1.2 million seeds per acre. 80 year old neighbor recommended a pound of seed for every expected bushel. Obviously he has never even thought of figuring seeds per acre and has been successful, granted he farmed up in the hills on a 40 bu farm.
According to the family that farmed this 4k acres of dry land since the 50s, it is a 25 bu winter wheat farm and this section I pictured is the driest so I planned for 20 bu. Couldn't bring myself to cut it all back to 20 pounds so I went 40 and then did a little patch at 10.
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Wheat in the desert
