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Do I Stay With Wheat?
Post At
04/ 7/2011 - 11:14 am
reply from
Darrell Bruggink
From Mike Wolpert, Hurricane, W.V.
I have a dilemma. I have a wheat field which I topdressed early. It has good number of tillers and I am about to apply Harmony for some purple deadnettle and other winter annuals.
First I am noticing some brown yellow leave tips and some on other parts of the leaf (frost damage?). Also, there is yellow bottom leaves, but I think this is from excess water recently.
I would guess at this point this field will yield 75 to 90 bu. wheat. I average around 32-bu. double crop beans. I have a 168 bu ave on corn.
Economically, corn wins out by about $75 and that the way I am leaning. But I like rotating to wheat long term.
How much value to you put on staying with a rotation vs. economics? If the wheat didn't have some leaf problems showing, I probably wouldn't consider switching, but I don't want to end up with 50 to 60 wheat when I can probably do 165-bu. corn, at least. I value your opinion.
I have a dilemma. I have a wheat field which I topdressed early. It has good number of tillers and I am about to apply Harmony for some purple deadnettle and other winter annuals.
First I am noticing some brown yellow leave tips and some on other parts of the leaf (frost damage?). Also, there is yellow bottom leaves, but I think this is from excess water recently.
I would guess at this point this field will yield 75 to 90 bu. wheat. I average around 32-bu. double crop beans. I have a 168 bu ave on corn.
Economically, corn wins out by about $75 and that the way I am leaning. But I like rotating to wheat long term.
How much value to you put on staying with a rotation vs. economics? If the wheat didn't have some leaf problems showing, I probably wouldn't consider switching, but I don't want to end up with 50 to 60 wheat when I can probably do 165-bu. corn, at least. I value your opinion.
Reply at
04/20/2011 - 7:51 am
reply from
Lee Kissinger
I would stay with wheat do what you have to to address the disease and weed issues it's growing and wheat has a good price. Plus if you have the possibility to sell the straw it adds to the income potential it's growing as screwed up as the weather is this spring it might do you well to leave it. It may turn out to be a better income if corn or beans go in later than normal.
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