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Today Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm, then showers after noon. Temperature falling to around 40 by 5pm. East northeast wind 17 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Tonight Rain. Low around 31. Northeast wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Wednesday A chance of rain and snow before noon, then a chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 44. Northeast wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Wednesday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29. Northeast wind around 10 mph.
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That nasty 4 letter S word is showing up in the forecast-- and because of all the rain we have been getting, most folks still have lots of 2nd cutting hay to put up and wheat to be harvested... :(

Be no haying or combining today as its raining out this morning and the temp is 45....
 
Ground is white here and the small trees are bent over to the ground. But the moisture is welcome.
 
Spoke to my Grandad in central Alberta Sunday and his wheat was lodging. Then they got snow yesterday, and it's snowing again today. His wheat is now flat. They needed the moisture as well, but sure could have had it in a more liquid format.
 
PureCountry said:
Spoke to my Grandad in central Alberta Sunday and his wheat was lodging. Then they got snow yesterday, and it's snowing again today. His wheat is now flat. They needed the moisture as well, but sure could have had it in a more liquid format.
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Yeah- I've been hearing reports of wheat kernels sprouting in the head... I haven't seen that in any of ours yet... Some beautiful crops this year too...
Sounds like the problem exists all along most of southern Canada and northern Montana and ND where Spring came late- and now winter wants to knock on the door...

But the moisture is sure there now for growing a winter wheat crop if they can get it seeded ! Always "next year" country..
 
We planted 88 acres of winter wheat last fall....well, a neighbor planted it for us as we have no farming equipment and he is a good farmer...we wanted to plant something because we wanted to seed that field down to alfalfa next year. It's been pretty much a disaster everything we have done in that particular spot. We have tried to do something with it, I think this is the third year. At one point we even disced something under to help the fertiiltiy of that field. Anyway, we decided last fall on winter wheat, couldn't get it harvested this summer because of all the rain,
and now it has sprouted in the head. We don't know much about wheat, winter or spring.......but there is no market for the sprouted wheat, it seems. So, now, what to do with it??? One person suggested we just let it go, and harvest as hay, the volunteer crop that will come up next year. Another one suggested we go ahead and bale it and try to sell it for feed.

I wish we had never heard of winter wheat. :?

Any suggestions?? Just leaving it would be the cheapest way to go...

There is a lot of second cutting here now too, but when it was hot enough, the second cutting wasn't all that good. Then the rains came and it came on really good, but people are afraid to cut it because it won't dry.......
 
Faster horses said:
We planted 88 acres of winter wheat last fall....well, a neighbor planted it for us as we have no farming equipment and he is a good farmer...we wanted to plant something because we wanted to seed that field down to alfalfa next year. It's been pretty much a disaster everything we have done in that particular spot. We have tried to do something with it, I think this is the third year. At one point we even disced something under to help the fertiiltiy of that field. Anyway, we decided last fall on winter wheat, couldn't get it harvested this summer because of all the rain,
and now it has sprouted in the head. We don't know much about wheat, winter or spring.......but there is no market for the sprouted wheat, it seems. So, now, what to do with it??? One person suggested we just let it go, and harvest as hay, the volunteer crop that will come up next year. Another one suggested we go ahead and bale it and try to sell it for feed.

I wish we had never heard of winter wheat. :?

Any suggestions?? Just leaving it would be the cheapest way to go...

There is a lot of second cutting here now too, but when it was hot enough, the second cutting wasn't all that good. Then the rains came and it came on really good, but people are afraid to cut it because it won't dry.......
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If you can combine it and feed it to the cows this winter. 2-3 pounds a day will stretch your hay supply out, and you won't have to deal with the mess in the fields by just letting it go. Be sure to get it test for vomotoxin before feeding.
 
Bar M said:
Faster horses said:
We planted 88 acres of winter wheat last fall....well, a neighbor planted it for us as we have no farming equipment and he is a good farmer...we wanted to plant something because we wanted to seed that field down to alfalfa next year. It's been pretty much a disaster everything we have done in that particular spot. We have tried to do something with it, I think this is the third year. At one point we even disced something under to help the fertiiltiy of that field. Anyway, we decided last fall on winter wheat, couldn't get it harvested this summer because of all the rain,
and now it has sprouted in the head. We don't know much about wheat, winter or spring.......but there is no market for the sprouted wheat, it seems. So, now, what to do with it??? One person suggested we just let it go, and harvest as hay, the volunteer crop that will come up next year. Another one suggested we go ahead and bale it and try to sell it for feed.

I wish we had never heard of winter wheat. :?

Any suggestions?? Just leaving it would be the cheapest way to go...

There is a lot of second cutting here now too, but when it was hot enough, the second cutting wasn't all that good. Then the rains came and it came on really good, but people are afraid to cut it because it won't dry.......
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If you can combine it and feed it to the cows this winter. 2-3 pounds a day will stretch your hay supply out, and you won't have to deal with the mess in the fields by just letting it go. Be sure to get it test for vomotoxin before feeding.
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We tried to combine it yesterday. It's too wet we were told. Thank you though, for the suggestion.
 
Guys north of town got tired of waiting on it baled it wet and wrapped it in silage plastic. Bet that makes some awesome feed.
 
35 degrees here this morning and raining again! Snow in the Bear Paws and predicting snow for tonight in the Little Rockies...

I'm not ready for winter...
 
After seeing some snowy pictures of the Bear Paw's mountains and their snow covered yard that Clear Creek Angus put on FB- I realized how green the yard was for mid September- so snapped a few pictures from the deck...

Raining too hard to have coffee on the deck this morning....Looking to the northeast- Off in the distance you can see some of the wheat fields that are waiting to be cut...


Looking to the north

Looking to the northwest... The rain gauge has .2 that we've picked up in the last two days... My son was at the north place and the gauge there had .4 in it-- and the temp was 33 degrees.... Will be a hard frost tonight and the green will start to go away...
 
FH, the beards on your wheat can't be fed to cattle. It'll cause all sorts of problems. Meaning it can't be swathed and baled at a mature stage. You can chop and ensile it, combine it for the grain or just forget about it. It will shatter out and re-seed itself.
 
DejaVu said:
FH, the beards on your wheat can't be fed to cattle. It'll cause all sorts of problems. Meaning it can't be swathed and baled at a mature stage. You can chop and ensile it, combine it for the grain or just forget about it. It will shatter out and re-seed itself.
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Really? The beards can't be fed to cattle? Wow, that makes it easy. We can't combine it, we can't chop and ensile it (we aren't set up to do that) so we'll just let it shatter and re-seed itself and start over next year. Funny that no one around here has mentioned the beards can't be fed to cattle. Thanks for the warning!
 
Mature wheat beards will lodge in their jaws causing lumps.
Lumps=infection=pain=weight loss=vet bills=no fun for man or animal!
 
if it's decent crop, you might let it kinda 'freeze dry' and thrash it later---ain't got a lot to lose at this point and might still get some feed outa it and kinda 'process' the straw while you're at it.

bad deal---probably at least 8 yrs outa 10 winter wheat is as close to a 'sure thing' as we got
 
littlejoe said:
if it's decent crop, you might let it kinda 'freeze dry' and thrash it later---ain't got a lot to lose at this point and might still get some feed outa it and kinda 'process' the straw while you're at it.

bad deal---probably at least 8 yrs outa 10 winter wheat is as close to a 'sure thing' as we got
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We tell the neighbors, "never do what we do." :D
 

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