Combines n2 wheat state this year

[Rooster]

Kentucky has been notorious for being the number one wheat "yielding" state in the nation (Kansas, the n1 wheat "producing"). Of all the states that I have observed crop production practices in, not one comes close to the level of intensive crop management used in KY. the reason for this level of insensity is to capitialize on the double crop soybean opportunity following wheat. Therefore, intensive wheat management has become common practice. For more information, visit www.opticrop.com or www.uky.edu.

 

[budlight]

here in West Ky we hope to be harvesting wheat by the 5th of June. Plans as of now are to dry around 15000 bushel of wheat in order to get a jump on planting double crop soybeans. Wheat looks best its ever looked. We applied liquid nitrogen in Febuary with 11 gallons of liquid with Disiston, and again in late march with 16 gallons. We ended up with a total of 96 units of acutal Nitrogen. Our worst wheat is Pioneer 2684 with some disease showing up, still should make better than 70. The best wheat is Pioneer 2568 that is only laying down where we doubled. I see this wheat going 100 or above. With 5 inches of rain in the past week, believe it or not, those spots stood back up. Remainder of wheat is in great shape. I look to average around 80 bu per acre. We burnt our corn stalks off last fall before we disked stalks. That is what makes the difference. You have basically no residue there. Our stands we so well established, we didnt even spray for onions. Enough for now, need to go change planter back over to plant corn. 80 acres of bottom corn been under water for 12 hours.

 

[hank]

Kentucky is a good guess, but Washington state is projected to produce 112.2 million bushels of wheat this year. Often, Washington trails Texas and Oklahoma in wheat prodution. But the South has been in a drought. By the way, Whitman county in eastern Washington is the highest wheat producing county in the nation.