Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | OntarioCanuck - 6/17/2018 09:19
What kind of wheat?
We grow soft red, used to from soft white in the past and even a soft red biscuit wheat for a special identified market but lately have been just regular soft red.
Straw is a valuable commodity here with all the dairy farms needing straw.
Our average yield is a little over 6.3 tonne/ha which would be something like 95, 60 pound units per acre.
6.8 t/ha last year
Not sure we will hit average this year as it is quite dry and wheat is filling and just starting to lose the green colour
Hi Bill,
In Missouri, the West side is hard, the East side is soft, generally. This is soft.
The straw yield is down. I haven't weighed a load, but its running three 4x5 big rounds per acre. Much less and it wouldn't be worth doing. This year with hay scarce, the price should be up in the fall. I may feed a lot of it this winter mixed with screenings and alfalfa, and sell my hay.
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Wheat harvest and straw baling
