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nw illinois | I seem to think that the bearded wheat outyields the beardless wheat. Someone who grows alot more wheat than I do probably knows better, but that is the way it is on our farm. Is there any other difference in characteristics other than awns. |
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Scottville, 49454 Northwest Michigan | Personally, I don't believe yield is influenced by whether the wheat is bearded or non-bearded. But we do try to plant all bearded wheat. We have found that deer are much less likely to damage bearded wheat, as compared to non-bearded wheat. |
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| How is your deer pressure, if it is none, plant what yields best, I think nonbeard might have less sprouting and diesse problems. |
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Martinsville, Ohio | Bearded came and went here. It is by far more awnless or beardless types here. The high yielding SRWW varieties seem to be beardless to me.
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| We cut all our wheat here for the horse hay market so it has to be beardless. Yamhill varity is our choise... |
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| never heard of horse hay market for wheat. |
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NE | Don't know much about the wheat but I can definately say I prefer nonbearded clams. |
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Scottville, 49454 Northwest Michigan | We plant all red wheat. We have found red wheat doesn't sprout as quickly as white wheat. We also feel the red wheat's give us better disease tolerance. Sometimes we're tempted to plant some white wheat because of the price premium. But so far we haven't.
Ninety percent of what we plant is between two varieties. We plant Pioneer 25R47 and the public variety, Red Ruby. These two varieties have the highest four year average yield for red wheats in the Michigan State University wheat trials. 25R47 averaged 94.6 bushels per acre, and Red Ruby averaged 93.9 bushels per acre over the past four year period. Both of these varieties are bearded.
less sprouting, better disease tolerance, less deer damage and the best yielders---------I think we've got the "bases" covered.
gordon
Edited by briggsfm 9/2/2010 21:49
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nw illinois | We plant the R47 and R62 both are the best varieities around here. |
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nw illinois | For bedding.........I remember years ago pork producers favored beardless straw for bedding crates. |
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Kindersley Sk. | I did a side by side trial in 2006 and had hail hit just before harvest started. I learned that awned wheat heads suffer way less loss in a hail storm than awnless wheat. Losses where 10% in awned and 30% in awnless variety.
I also think awned wheat threshes easier with a rotary combine than awnless. No proof, just my opinion. |
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SW Saskatchewan | Could be affected by the varieties.
Twern't nuttin threshed harder than Neepawa wheat.
But it sure didn't shatter in the wind(or hail storm). |
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