Gonna Grow Wheat........

[Mutti]

found source for organic red hard spring wheat seed and we are gonna grow an acre...got the equipment and a neighbor has a combine. An experiment but even a mod. yield will be worth the time and effort with the escalating problems of getting good wheat. If it works out will commit more land; have 10 flat good acres we could evenually use. Will switch the buckwheat to the corner field. Anybody growing wheat on a small scale? DEE

[diane]

Not this year because I have other grains I need to plant out but I have. It is sure rewarding to plant, harvest, and then grind and use your own wheat. We didn't combine but used scythes.

It's a winter grain down here, but I'm seriously considering planting some next year if I can find the right varieties.

.....Alan.

[Batt]

Mutti...Care to share your source? Is it anywhere near SW Mo.? The guy who combines my fescue said he could also combine wheat.

[Mutti]

Johnny's Selected Seed and not cheap with the shipping but we needed organic..a good crop will give us seed for the future so gonna consider it an investment!!!! No seed houses around here sell this and others can't even guarantee delivery so we just made the decision to get it now. Do have a source up Columbia way for the buckwheat and they sell alot of other grains; a Mennonite family. Have ordered OP field corn from them before....growing corn here is a waste of time...might as well just throw the bags of seed out for the deer. We are infested. DEE

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

I think I may also grow some wheat this next year - a couple of thousand Sq Ft of hard spring wheat and also a couple of thousand Sq Ft of Naked Oats. Naked Oats are the only kind of oats you can grow that can be adequately threshed and used without milling.

[Mutti]

I've read about those naked oats...we should sure grow some as my DH eats oatmeal every morning....63 years young and his last cholesteral was 153!!!! We always grew oats when we lived in MI and fed oat straw in the winter past horses/cows hay feeding....they loved it. If we used it for bedding they'd eat it all! Will bale the wheat straw for mulch; hard to find down here in so. MO as not crop land generally. DEE

[Windy in Kansas]

I"m planning on planting a large garden, perhaps a market garden, so I don't know that I'll committ any of my cropland to wheat. I have grown it in the past and now that it is worth something more than expenses I may again grow some. I still have my combine which will probably need some new belts by now for setting outside.