Thompsontown, Pennsylvania | i have made a point to get huron rye when i have grown for seed....a fair amount of the "end users" for seed are going to be sowing for forage and huron is later, and leafier.....as for how you treat it, if you have some good wheat ground and some poor, put wheat on good ground, and grow rye on poor......mostly had 40-45 bu rye, sometimes 35 bu....sow 1.5-2.5 bu/acre, go easy on the N, so it doesn't go down, and also because even if you push it, it will probably still only do 40-45 bu...doesn't seem to respond well to any added management.....makes lots of really nice straw, which is why it has interested me...plus if you have 40-50 bu wheat ground with moderate inputs, you will have 40 bu rye ground with less inputs and 50 bushel wheat at $7 is less gross income than 40 bu rye at $13?, $15 a bushel....even at $9 a bushel, which is what my lender has as a 5 year average, you gross more.... |
Growing rye for grain production
