TOP RESULTS DON’T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT – THESE FACTORS CAN LEAD TO IMPROVED SUCCESS WITH WHEAT As with all crops, proper planting is a crucial step to creating the highest possible yields. Please review these focus areas to ensure your wheat crop gets the “Serious Start” that is needs. Equipment properly tuned and calibrated Ensuring …
There are many different factors that need to be evaluated shooting for BIG wheat yields. Since the fall management strategies such as variety selection, residue management and planting have all been looked after; it is time to start planning the spring management…
Your Hard Red Winter Wheat crop has two jobs to do. Make grain kernels (= YIELD), and produce adequate Protein levels (= GRADE). These two jobs need to be accomplished separately. This article will help you understand how to achieve both goals for your crop!
With all this wet weather, disease concerns start to come into play, and protection against things like septoria, powdery mildew, and fusarium head blight become very important. As we look at providing that protection, proper application becomes critical.
Rotation “It’s your Rotation calling, please continue to include Wheat!”Including wheat in your crop rotation has always felt like ‘a good idea’. Growers and Agronomists alike have intuitively believed this, but the specific quantifiable benefits have been difficult to completely assess. The following information summarizes the main economic and agronomic incentives to continue to include …
CERTIFIED SEED: Can You Afford Not to Use It? Mother Nature does her best to remind us how important certified seed can be to long term sustainability. Stripe Rust has been a reminder that, to remain profitable, we need to continue to invest in our future genetics to stay ahead of ALL diseases. We must …
These charts are guidelines for cereal crops, for calibrating seed drills at various row widths, and determining plant stands and expected yields.
Spring wheat should be the first crop seeded in the spring. It handles cold weather and soils better than other cereal crops resulting in higher yields.
Your seeding rate in lbs per acre can be calculated by looking at your seed tag. View the seeds per pound and use this chart to find pounds per acre.
Frost Seeding Cereals! Peter Johnson, Cereals Specialist, OMAFRA, Stratford. Be Prepared.