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Monday, 06 May 2013 09:26 |
Wheat And More ... Or Less
Some no-till enthusiasts might like you to believe that if you
convert to no-till, you’ll float right to the top of the profit class. Well, it
really doesn’t work that way. |
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Monday, 11 March 2013 14:01 |
 Wheat and More…or Less
While there is some interest in planting cover crops
in semiarid areas of western Kansas, for instance, you might want to look
before you leap — because the practice will affect your ability to insure the
following crop.
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Monday, 14 January 2013 08:56 |
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Wheat and More….or Less There is some good news in the battle on how to control weeds in
stubble fields after harvest. And
believe it or not, the ticket to clean post-harvest stubble may be simply the
wheat variety you’re planting.
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Thursday, 16 August 2012 15:41 |
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Severe wind erosion of a recently planted no-till milo field. Like they say,
there's good points and bad points about everything. And no till is no
different. |
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Monday, 04 June 2012 09:33 |
Wheat & More....Or
Less
A lot
of wonderful things have been said about cover crops over the past few years.
But when I look at the data, all I see is that cover crops cost, they don't pay.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:32 |
Wheat and More…or lessThe spray planes have been going day and night for weeks. But
during that same time, I’ve put over a thousand miles on my pickup checking our
fields for leaf and stripe rust—which I still can’t find. Am I missing the
boat? |
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Wednesday, 07 March 2012 08:23 |
Wheat and More….or Less
Over the past months, there’s been a lot said about what kind of
a new Farm Bill we should have. |
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Thursday, 17 November 2011 13:22 |
 It’s almost like I was riding across some rough
rangeland last week and found a stiff withered old saddlebag that was carefully
stuffed behind a rock ledge from years ago.
When I pulled it out, you guessed it: it was packed full
of double eagles--gold coins all minted back in the 1800s. And talk about
weight! When I lifted the bulging saddlebags, I was afraid the old coins would
rip the bottom right out. I was rich! |
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 12:50 |
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Wheat and More….or less By VANCE EHMKE
After one of the hottest
and driest years in the past century, many farmers have given up all hope for
having even enough topsoil moisture to germinate the wheat crop they’re getting
ready to plant. But wait….even without rain, subsoil moisture may be moving up
into the root zone because of recent cool temperatures. |
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011 13:29 |
Wheat and More ... or Less I noticed that there is a lot of interest in seed
wheat prices so I thought I'd better provide some update. In talking with other
certified seed growers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, I found that there is a
lot of wheat priced at $12 to $15/50-pound unit.
You need to figure back to what this is on a per bushel basis because priced in
50-pound units makes it sound cheaper. |
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011 07:24 |
Wheat and More….or less
Over the past few years I’ve heard a number of people
promote what I’m guessing is a proposed addition to the Ten Commandments. If
accepted, this new 11th commandment would read: Thou Shalt Not
Till.
Intrigued, I looked up the concept on the internet and
discovered under the What Does This Mean section that if you did even occasional tillage, yes, you’d
be looking at eternal hell and
damnation. |
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Friday, 06 May 2011 16:07 |
Wheat and More….or less
The good news is that we don’t have any disease in our wheat crop. But the bad news is that if we don’t get any rain, there won’t even be a wheat crop.
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:47 |
Wheat and More….or less
Remember the old saying…you can’t trust a dog to watch your
lunch. |
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Wednesday, 09 March 2011 11:22 |
Wheat and More….or lessIn driving around the neighborhood recently, I noticed an increasing number of wheat stubble fields that were harvested with stripper heads rather than conventional platforms. New technology, for sure, but is it any better?
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Thursday, 24 February 2011 15:17 |
Wheat and More….or less
OK, tell me again why we’re supposed to plant corn over
grain sorghum. |
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Monday, 24 January 2011 11:50 |
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Wheat and More ... or Less
Even the old timers say they’ve rarely seen it this dry.
But one thing for sure, the drier it is, the higher the market goes. Some market
analysts are already talking $10 and $12 wheat.
Larry Hixson from Wakeeney KS remembers it being this
dry before—back in ’55 and ’56. “We didn’t even plant wheat that year. This
year, though, we had a good rain in September and as a result, we have good
stands.” |
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Monday, 22 November 2010 14:10 |
Wheat and More….or less
It may have rained in central Kansas, but out here in
the High Plains, we’re still praying. While we do have some fields that came up
fairly well, there’s a heck of a lot of wheat seed still waiting in the ground
for germinating moisture.
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Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:19 |
By Vance Ehmke
Farmers here in the central and southern Plains are beginning to wonder why the Russian drought is getting all the attention. There's only one thing that wheat farmers out here are talking about-and that is, how dry it is. |
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:07 |
Wheat and More….or less
So far the big story about the 2010 wheat harvest is high yields and low protein—and, of course, how low will wheat prices have to go? |
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Friday, 11 June 2010 09:20 |
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Jim Shroyer, Extension wheat specialist at KSU, just left our farm about an hour ago after looking at a number of treated and untreated fields. |
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 08:39 |
Wheat and More….or lessJust back from a quick tour of the neighborhood, I’m less enthusiastic about wheat yields in western Kansas. On a number of fields that I saw which were not treated with fungicides, I’d say it’ll be a miracle if those fields make 10 to 20 bushels per acre while adjacent treated fields could yield 50 to 60. |
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Monday, 26 April 2010 14:19 |
Wheat and More ... Or Less
With wheat prices already at or below $4, about the only good news in the wheat market are protein premiums. Those premiums can net you up to another 25 cents per bushel if your wheat protein content is l4.6%. The bad news, though, is that a lot of flourmills aren’t even interested in your wheat if the protein is less than l2%. |
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:46 |
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It may be rare, but, yes, we do have soil borne mosaic virus infecting wheat in western Kansas this year. |
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 08:51 |
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Wheat and More ... or Less
We all know that wheat prices are low. The real question we ought to be asking, however, is how high they could go. |
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 07:23 |
Wheat and More….or less
Regardless of where cash grain prices are, there is some good news for wheat growers in that prices for several key inputs are going down — fertilizers, for one, but also for certified seed wheat. |
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