Harvest Updates
Wheat Harvest Using the Baler Instead of the Combine- An Often Seen Sight in 2009 in Oklahoma
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 6:09:31 CDT
It's been a good weekend as far as weather is concerned for the 2009 hard red winter wheat harvest to pick up speed in southwestern areas of the state. We talked with Mike Schulte of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission as the weekend began- and he expected that we would see more combines rolling as the moisture levels drop. The picture here is of perhaps the most prominent way that we will see harvest of the 2009 wheat crop this- the wheat ending up in large round bales- as we see here in Canadian County.
It's probably not true- but you have to wonder if we might actually harvest more acres of wheat this year for forage- either through graze out- or by baling those fields instead of running combines through them for grain.
Over the weekend, we were out in the country in Grady County and Canadian County- saw a lot of wheat already baled and some farmers working on the process of getting to laid down into windrows and ready for the baler.
We have pictures on pages linked here by clicking on the name of each county.
In Grady County, the farmer on this section had decided to bale some of his wheat, was undecided on a couple of fields and had a few fields that he definitely was going to harvest for grain as soon as it gets ripe. In looking at a couple of heads, we found a few kernels in each head, but the heads are not heavy with grain and the stands we saw everywhere we looked were on the thin side of things.
In Canadian County, a lot of wheat hay bales were spotted, including the bales seen above and the additional pictures seen on the page linked here. These hay bales mark the end of a crop that had promise in central Oklahoma of making perhaps an average grain yield before critical parts of the plant were destroyed by the hard freeze of early April.
Click on the listen bar below to listen in our conversation with Mike Schulte on grain harvest prospects, the concern over Scab and more.
Ron Hays talks with Mike Schulte of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission to get a Harvest Update
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