No.
Keep in mind that there is ALOT of stubble back.. this gets missed.. probably a third of my Winter Wheat acreage is stubble back behind corn production. Alot of that is minimal till or no till.. there is some ground that was intended for Corn or Sorghum production last fall that guys no tilled wheat into.. etc..
Alot of the hard core wheat on wheat acres are minimum tilled.. some heavy tilled.
We have sand ridges here.. and that is not conducive to the conditions which we are experiencing.. most fields have received less than 0.25" since sowing last fall.. you can tell where the starter fertilizer was placed and where it was not.. (not everyone uses pop up fertilizer with their drills..) The fields are becoming very patchy.. and we're not really growing yet.
These dry cold fronts have been brutal for us when they blow through.. we're looking at 70 degree temperatures later this week.. so it's go time.. the crop is going to burn through what is left of the moisture now.. or die trying.
I'm still holding out hope that this year goes like 2014.. where we have a rough Wheat crop but adequate rains later to pull a fall crop out.. although 2014 did not have a La Nina like this year.. there are signs that the ENSO is breaking down and we should be coming off La Nina soon.. thing is there may not be much to save when it finally breaks for the HRWW crop.. here.
We're 90 days out from harvest.. of whatever is left.
Edited by JonSCKs 3/12/2018 08:11
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