[whatswrong]

I just finished reading Thacker Harvesting article in Farm and Ranch Guide .Their run up from N.M.,Texas , Kansas and into Colorado has only been 5-25 bushel with some weight down to 54 lb. I thought that area routinely was better than that .There were earlier reports Texas had moved out of a drought situation in most of the state .Is this the normal for this year or are their customers just happening to be in a stressed area.

 

[SWFarmService]

So far checking with harvesters the first decent wheat was found near grant Nebraska but I haven't heard any numbers yet, I will call and find out, I'll let ya know what I hear

 

[ShinyNewFarmer]

They moved out of the drought, but not in time to save the wheat that was already in the ground. It sounds like a lot of it that survived ended up with disease because it wouldn't stop raining. I don't have any first-hand knowledge, only what I have read on the Net.

 

[redline73]

I lost over half my crop to winterkill, then disease set in after a very very wet and cool may. I just started cuttin yesterday and im seeing yields in the middle 30's to lower 40's. The test weights have been runnin at or above 60 lbs. My neighbors have cut alot of 52-54lb wheat, looks like foliar feedin helped keep up the test weight, but didnt contribute much directly to yield.

 

[gmguy]

Ours was looking pretty well done for before the rain, so while it helped it considerably, it was still too stressed to ever fully recover. We got 32 bushel wheat, IMO the straw looked like 40-50 bushel straw.

There was some winterkill in ours as well, we didnt get hit as hard as some folks locally did.

So, at least in our little corner of the world, I am amazed that the wheat price is not perking up, as IMO production is down quite a bit.

 

[BrentE]

I'm in MO and KS, our wheat sucked here. It looked pretty good and I had some that yields bumped into the 60's but most averaged 30 or so. Drought wasn't our problem, our problem was way way way too much rain. Test weights were terrible 47-55 range, lots of damaged kernels, lots of mold and lots of toxin. Tons of it being turned away from elevators, tons more being sold at huge discount, like $2-$2.50 range.

 

[bear]

I'm in MO and KS, our wheat sucked here. It looked pretty good and I had some that yields bumped into the 60's but most averaged 30 or so. Drought wasn't our problem, our problem was way way way too much rain. Test weights were terrible 47-55 range, lots of damaged kernels, lots of mold and lots of toxin. Tons of it being turned away from elevators, tons more being sold at huge discount, like $2-$2.50 range.

what do you guys do with your shot & sprung wheat over there ? here in aussie land a fair amount of it goes into stock feed at a discounted rate . we are still 12 to 14 weeks of harvest yet hope we dont get drowned out , we have had 9 inches of rain since sowing

 

[SWFarmService]

Up in SW North Dakota its going to be interesting, there will record yeilds and train wrecks, been telling people for years that this wheat on wheat for 40+ years at a time with no rotation would come to an end one of these years.

Lots of mosaic virus, striped leaf rust, rust, head blite, scab, tan spot and smut.

Some are out chasing a protein bump in 90+ degree weather and apparently they haven't paid any attention to the damage they are doing, some have even been rolling mid flower.

Will be all over the board here for sure

 

[mbfarmer]

Yields should be good here but a lot of wet weather during flowering especially for the later fields. Usually that means higher fusarium levels and vom. It really looks like a year to have high quality wheat so I'm sure ours will be crap.

 

[cat man]

Allot of disease pressure here also. Striped rust, tan spot, smut, fusarium. And yes it was raining when most of the wheat was flowering here. Things started out looking good but have been going down hill since boot stage.

 

[BrentE]

what do you guys do with your shot & sprung wheat over there ? here in aussie land a fair amount of it goes into stock feed at a discounted rate . we are still 12 to 14 weeks of harvest yet hope we dont get drowned out , we have had 9 inches of rain since sowing

Pretty sure they blend it with better stuff for livestock feed, at least that's what the guys at the elevator were talking about the other day while I was there.

Personally, I'm going to clean most of mine and use it for seed...probably the best value I can get out of it.

 

[Gary L]

Just getting done in eastern CO the freeze got us bad. It made 12 to 25 bushel weighted 52 to 59 lbs mostly 54.