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OSU's Roger Gribble Offers His Take on 2010 Oklahoma Hard Red Winter Wheat Crop
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:08:26 CST
OSU Area Agronomist Roger Gribble says that the wheat crop is all of the place when it comes to the state of development that we find in mid February in north central and northwest Oklahoma. Gribble says we have early planted wheat that looks pretty good at this stage, but then as much as 25 percent of the acreage that is in wheat in this part of the state was not planted until late October or in some cases, much later.
Gribble says that some of the later planted wheat will likely need some weed control measures applied, as the stand is still very thin on many of those fields.
One question that a farmer may be asking in the next few weeks is rather or not to graze out some of the early planted wheat and then planting a spring crop after the cattle have grazed those acres. Gribble says that there was concern by many growers about performance of corn and in some cases, grain sorghum, based on hot weather hitting those crops this past year in June. The crop that seems to have grabbed a lot of attention in north central Oklahoma is soybeans. Gribble says that cost projections on soybeans seems to be telling many producers that as little as fourteen to sixteen bushels per acre could be a breakeven level for soybean production in 2010.
We talk about all of these subjects with Roger Gribble as we stopped by his office on Friday afternoon, February 19, in Enid. Click on the Listen Bar to hear his thoughts about our 2010 wheat crop and more.
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