Wheat
Harvest of winter wheat kicks off early in many areas of the country, with strong yields.
Kelli Bassett, Pioneer area agronomist, gives an update on pest and weed pressures in central Illinois as well as an update on the region’s wheat crop.
Reports from the first day of the Hard Winter Wheat Tour show the highest expected yields in the past decade.
The success of much of the central and southern Kansas wheat crop will depend on rain.
The Wheat Quality Council’s 2012 Hard Winter Wheat Tour is on tap to record a healthy crop.
With the crop so far ahead of schedule, growers should have a better window to plant no-till corn or soybeans immediately following wheat harvest.
Wheat growers now have the opportunity to control key grass and broadleaf weeds in one new product: Huskie Complete herbicide.
While not entirely explaining increased yields over the past 15 years, statistical evidence on linear yield trends shows biotechnology could play a role.
Frequently, the practices that generate the highest return on investment require the smallest changes; many don’t cost anything to implement.
Seeking sound agronomy assistance from a certified crop adviser is money well spent. After all, if you don’t compare your varieties to others, how can you be sure you’re planting the best ones?
USDA scientists have identified a number of stem rust-resistant wheat varieties and are retesting them to verify their resistance.
If your wheat yields are good but you want to make them great, make plans to participate in one of two Farm Journal Wheat College seminars in early 2012.
Producers faced with very dry soils basically have three main options when seeding wheat.
Under especially dry conditions, the risk of carryover injury to wheat from corn or soybean herbicides is much higher.
The impacts of the weather continue to be evident in our grain crops.
Removing straw has at least one common denominator: exporting nutrients out of the field.
Wheat fields have suffered considerably from the abundant precipitation.
Flood damage to winter wheat is starting to show up in parts of the Midwest, and in some cases sections of, or entire fields are likely to perish.
The damage left by above-average rainfall is now showing up in wheat fields.
About half of Kansas—the nation’s top producer of winter wheat—is now suffering from severe or extreme drought, up from less than 20% two weeks earlier
The estimates are in and a much smaller winter wheat crop is expected.
Regularly scout fields to stay ahead of quality-robbing weeds, insects and diseases.
Mix No-Till and Rotations to Store More Precipitation; Nitrogen Crop Sensors for Wheat
“Winter-kill is not the same thing as freeze damage that we occasionally experience in March and April after wheat has broken dormancy and has entered the reproduction stage of development (jointing),” said Dr. Brent Bean, AgriLife Extension agronomist.
Management stays the same of the fertilizer giant, and operations should stay the same.
You can now easily determine where you can reduce energy costs in your grain drying systems.