The first week of February had highs in the 50’s and 60’s and we hadn’t had any significant rain for a couple weeks. Wheat and barley comes out of dormancy with sustained temperatures that high. It needs a small amount of fertilizer to feed on and encourage tillering (when the plant makes multiple stalls) which …
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Late Planted Wheat
Nu East wheat planted December 17th. The field has had many inches of rain on it since then and it is not one of my better drained fields. Where water is not standing, the wheat is just popping out of the ground. I’m sure yield will suffer but at least the field is salvageable. Hopefully …
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Row Crop Flaming
I built a 12 row, 30 inch row crop flamer last year (matches the 12 row planter I bought a year ago). I used a kit from Flame Engineering. I set it up so there is 1 torch per row set directly over the row and angled to the back. A lot of flamers are …
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