EC North Dakota | chadlit - 3/20/2017 22:06
As stated above it helps spread the work load out and cash inflow during late summer. Wheat costs less to produce than soybeans and corn. It improves soil tilth. Corn after wheat increases yields by 15-30 bu./acre. If you have been planting it for awhile and been lucky, you have built up some wheat aph's which can actually show a profit for 2017. Of course you need good protein and no quality discounts, (which is like winning the powerball lottery)but if we were in it for the money we would have quit a long time ago!
Spring wheat yields have really improved. Mentor told me this is wheat country and if you can't make money raising wheat, you've let your costs get too high. I struggled with that evidently because my costs were too high. :)
Wheat will make me a bit of money the year it's planted but it improves my corn and soybeans enough to easily be worthwhile. |
To grow wheat or not?
