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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Bearded or not Bearded
