Cutting has begun in southern KS along the OK border and will progress northward across the state in the next two wks. Due to warm & dry winter, yeilds are low and crop quaility fair to poor. This will not a a great harvest. Was wondering from anyone is western OK how cutting went there along the Farmrail and Grain Belt shortlines. Any interesting rail activity worth chatting about?
Harvesting wheat in the first week of June ? ? are you serious ? ? how many crops do you get per year? It seems the farmers in Saskatchewan just got their crops in the ground, or have I lost the concept of the seasons? need some help here.
That is the harvesting of the winter wheat crop. The there is a summer wheat crop which I think is harvested later than the Canadian crop. Perhaps someone in the know could vouch for this.
Yep, that the beauty of the lower 48. You can grow 2 crops of wheat a year. I beleive they are two different types of wheat beyound just the name summer and winter wheat. [2c]
for those of you who are not farmers. Winter wheat is the small red stuff -planted in the fall and overwinters as a plant,grows in the spring and harvested in the summer.
The white (actually yellow if you look at it)is planted in the spring, grows in the summer and harvested in the fall. You can’t get two wheat crops a year on the same piece of ground
A lot of the white wheat is exported to Asia because it make great noodles. Portland is a major port. Most bread flour in North America is red wheat.
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Way, way down south (close to the Gulf of Mexico), sometimes people harvest winter wheat then plant short-season soybeans about this time of the year and harvest them in late fall.
What grain rush?
Winter wheat harvest from Western KS, Eastern CO & Western NE will be a disaster this year (no moisture & no winter snow cover) …we are sliding into a near dustbowl condition.
In CO, we have a ban on well water irrigation pitting farmers vs. municipal water systems and everybody loses (except the water litigation lawyers).
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For those of you who are farmers, I never said you could get two wheat crops on the same piece of ground. I said you could get two crops a year. You plant half your land in Winter wheat and half in Summer wheat. You say why on earth would you do that. Security, you don’t have all your eggs in one basket. If one fails the other may still come in. Maybe not but that’s farming. In Canada if the wheat crop fails ( only one crop per year ) you may have to sell the farm. [2c]
Jodom - us Yankees can do the double-crop thing in a limited area - mostly in the area north of the Ohio River and south of I-70, in the areas with good soil… You have to have good drying conditions allowing you pull the wheat out in late June, and lasting long enough to get the beans in quickly using mimimum till planting. Then you pray like mad for rain so the emerging beans don’t fry, and for the frost to hold off long enough for the pods to fill out.
If it goes right, you rake it in.
But - many of us here in the areas near horse country make a good dollar off just selling the straw from the wheat - while the income is less, so is the risk.
I had heard custom harvesters were cutting wheat making between 5 to 20 bushels per acre in north Texas. The wheat is a little better in southern Kansas but, by not much.
Don’t tell them boys in Kansas that or they will be tearin’ off another plug of chaw and cussin’ and spittin’ for the next half hour. LOL [:D]
Hard & Soft Red Wheat (winter and spring) Wheat: used for making bread products
Hard and Soft White Wheats: mostly used for the pastry industry cakes and such
Durum: used for any kind of noodle production.
Most winter wheat is grown in the middle of the country Texas to Nebraska, with smaller amounts in Montana and other northern states.
Spring wheat is mostly grown in the northern states.
Durum is grown north mostly in Montana and North Dakota due to it’s extreme hatred of heat.
In Kansas and other states Winter Wheat is followed by Soybeans so that two crops can be grown on the same ground. Other ground grows corn for a single crop in that year
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