Wheat Farming Education

[batkitty]

I need some help......I work for a mushroom company and we use wheat straw for our mushroom beds as a part of the mix. We have very specific requirements and need a better contract at our Princeton, IL facility.

So tell me is the wheat harvest for the US over? Basically we need the straw cut in swaths, not chopped up and then put up in large square bales. Once the wheat is harvested, how difficult is it to have it cut like that and not chopped up?

I know I'm probably not asking the right questions. I haven't been around much farming. My boss is hoping I can connect with someone with the type of straw we need closer to Princeton. I believe we are currently trucking in from Central Kansas.

Any help/added education is appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[cowman52]

You have to get the combiners to disconnect the straw choppers, and can't bale behind a rotary combine- no choppers on them they just grind the straw in the threashing process

 

[Yanuck]

I need some help......I work for a mushroom company and we use wheat straw for our mushroom beds as a part of the mix. We have very specific requirements and need a better contract at our Princeton, IL facility.

So tell me is the wheat harvest for the US over? Basically we need the straw cut in swaths, not chopped up and then put up in large square bales. Once the wheat is harvested, how difficult is it to have it cut like that and not chopped up?

I know I'm probably not asking the right questions. I haven't been around much farming. My boss is hoping I can connect with someone with the type of straw we need closer to Princeton. I believe we are currently trucking in from Central Kansas.

Any help/added education is appreciated.

Thanks!

I see why you're a Husker fan now....they feed you sh!t and keep you in the dark all the time!!!!!!!!!! :wink: :lol: :lol:

 

[SMN Herf]

Wheat harvest in NC South Dakota is just getting started with the winter wheat. The spring wheat harvest won't start for a week aroung here at the ealrilest and it will probably last the rest of August unless we see about 10 to 14 days of really good drying weather. Much later than normal.

It isn't difficult not to chop it up, but you need to have it baled behind a conventional combine.

 

[High Plains]

The further north you go the later the wheat harvest. So South Dakota is a good place to start and then north.

HP

 

[burnt]

I need some help......I work for a mushroom company and we use wheat straw for our mushroom beds as a part of the mix. We have very specific requirements and need a better contract at our Princeton, IL facility.

So tell me is the wheat harvest for the US over? Basically we need the straw cut in swaths, not chopped up and then put up in large square bales. Once the wheat is harvested, how difficult is it to have it cut like that and not chopped up?

I know I'm probably not asking the right questions. I haven't been around much farming. My boss is hoping I can connect with someone with the type of straw we need closer to Princeton. I believe we are currently trucking in from Central Kansas.

Any help/added education is appreciated.

Thanks!

I see why you're a Husker fan now....they feed you sh!t and keep you in the dark all the time!!!!!!!!!! :wink: :lol: :lol:

Ohhh, ho, that was a wham bam outta the blue!!!! :shock: :wink:

 

[batkitty]

I need some help......I work for a mushroom company and we use wheat straw for our mushroom beds as a part of the mix. We have very specific requirements and need a better contract at our Princeton, IL facility.

So tell me is the wheat harvest for the US over? Basically we need the straw cut in swaths, not chopped up and then put up in large square bales. Once the wheat is harvested, how difficult is it to have it cut like that and not chopped up?

I know I'm probably not asking the right questions. I haven't been around much farming. My boss is hoping I can connect with someone with the type of straw we need closer to Princeton. I believe we are currently trucking in from Central Kansas.

Any help/added education is appreciated.

Thanks!

I see why you're a Husker fan now....they feed you sh!t and keep you in the dark all the time!!!!!!!!!! :wink: :lol: :lol:

See a Husker fan can put aside differences in football teams to provide good, relevant information and help others in need. Maybe you need to spend some more time with a few Husker fans. We can help you be a better person.

 

[batkitty]

Thank you cowman and SMN Herf. That helps.

 

[Yanuck]

I need some help......I work for a mushroom company and we use wheat straw for our mushroom beds as a part of the mix. We have very specific requirements and need a better contract at our Princeton, IL facility.

So tell me is the wheat harvest for the US over? Basically we need the straw cut in swaths, not chopped up and then put up in large square bales. Once the wheat is harvested, how difficult is it to have it cut like that and not chopped up?

I know I'm probably not asking the right questions. I haven't been around much farming. My boss is hoping I can connect with someone with the type of straw we need closer to Princeton. I believe we are currently trucking in from Central Kansas.

Any help/added education is appreciated.

Thanks!

I see why you're a Husker fan now....they feed you sh!t and keep you in the dark all the time!!!!!!!!!! :wink: :lol: :lol:

See a Husker fan can put aside differences in football teams to provide good, relevant information and help others in need. Maybe you need to spend some more time with a few Husker fans. We can help you be a better person.

Oh Lord....I lived in NE for 7 yrs, why do you think I dis :wink: ike the team so much??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Doug Thorson]

My wheat will be cut later today(western SD) and there isn't a whole lot left in this area.

The biggest problem with your requirements is to find sopmeone with an old combine instead of a new rotary. I am not sure of the difference inhow they work, but a rotary completly chops the straw. IH has made rotary combines exclusively for 20+ years and John Deere quit offering conventionals 2-3 years ago so very few custom wheat cutters still run conventionals and there will be less next year.

PM me about price and other details and I can maybe set you up with something for next year, possibly even this year, because there is still one local with 3 conventional combines because a lot of us hicks want some straw for our cows to lay on.

 

[Anonymous]

My wheat will be cut later today(western SD) and there isn't a whole lot left in this area.

The biggest problem with your requirements is to find sopmeone with an old combine instead of a new rotary. I am not sure of the difference inhow they work, but a rotary completly chops the straw. IH has made rotary combines exclusively for 20+ years and John Deere quit offering conventionals 2-3 years ago so very few custom wheat cutters still run conventionals and there will be less next year.

PM me about price and other details and I can maybe set you up with something for next year, possibly even this year, because there is still one local with 3 conventional combines because a lot of us hicks want some straw for our cows to lay on.

Yep its even harder finding straw for feed/bedding anymore...
Our winter wheat combining has just got started- and the spring wheat will be a couple more weeks- but like Doug says- not many conventional combines around anymore- and those that use them usually want the straw for feed....
I'm lucky in that the fella's that combine my irrigated cropland for me still have a couple of conventionals- and bale everything for feed...With the talk of hay going over $120-$130 a ton- them old cows may have to get to liking that straw... :wink:

 

[I Luv Herfrds]

We are almost done with our winter wheat harvest. Our cutters can take off the chopper and we can bale up the straw.
The harvest is pretty much starting up here.

 

[katrina]

Dang it....... You're about two weeks to late here... We could of fixed ya right up........ Have the baler and the whole nine yards..... How many bales do ya need?? Or tons??? Contact me next year early and will see what we can do.... This year the straw was short, but last year wasn't, so let me know............

 

[batkitty]

Dang it....... You're about two weeks to late here... We could of fixed ya right up........ Have the baler and the whole nine yards..... How many bales do ya need?? Or tons??? Contact me next year early and will see what we can do.... This year the straw was short, but last year wasn't, so let me know............

This is what I'm finding. The current harvest is getting a bit out of our freight range with western South Dakota being about it. I'll keep you in mind for next year though. Thanks!

 

[katrina]

Dang it....... You're about two weeks to late here... We could of fixed ya right up........ Have the baler and the whole nine yards..... How many bales do ya need?? Or tons??? Contact me next year early and will see what we can do.... This year the straw was short, but last year wasn't, so let me know............

This is what I'm finding. The current harvest is getting a bit out of our freight range with western South Dakota being about it. I'll keep you in mind for next year though. Thanks!

How many tons are you looking for....... We have some..........

 

[Doug Thorson]

I'm lucky in that the fella's that combine my irrigated cropland for me still have a couple of conventionals- and bale everything for feed...With the talk of hay going over $120-$130 a ton- them old cows may have to get to liking that straw...

I could sell you hay a bunch cheaper but the trucker from here to there would take your breath away!

ps, wheat is running over 35, but not likely to hit 40.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm lucky in that the fella's that combine my irrigated cropland for me still have a couple of conventionals- and bale everything for feed...With the talk of hay going over $120-$130 a ton- them old cows may have to get to liking that straw...

I could sell you hay a bunch cheaper but the trucker from here to there would take your breath away!

ps, wheat is running over 35, but not likely to hit 40.

Yep-- there is quite of a bit of it around the southern part of the state closer--but the trucking has held everybody back on buying yet...Many are thinking (hoping?) when all shakes out there will be more around here than they think- or they can find some closer in eastern ND or southern Sask they can get...Second cuttings are coming back good...
If the weather keeps going like it has with the cold nights--some are thinking the late seeded wheat may end up getting frosted and becoming hay...

Our wheat isn't going to hit that....Won't be a bumper crop- but is looking a lot better than it did a month ago- when I was wondering if it was going to be a wreck... I haven't heard any stories on how the winter wheat is running- but some of those fields were looking awful good...

 

[Denny]

I need some help......I work for a mushroom company and we use wheat straw for our mushroom beds as a part of the mix. We have very specific requirements and need a better contract at our Princeton, IL facility.

So tell me is the wheat harvest for the US over? Basically we need the straw cut in swaths, not chopped up and then put up in large square bales. Once the wheat is harvested, how difficult is it to have it cut like that and not chopped up?

I know I'm probably not asking the right questions. I haven't been around much farming. My boss is hoping I can connect with someone with the type of straw we need closer to Princeton. I believe we are currently trucking in from Central Kansas.

Any help/added education is appreciated.

Thanks!

I see why you're a Husker fan now....they feed you sh!t and keep you in the dark all the time!!!!!!!!!! :wink: :lol: :lol:

And here I thought it was from DOING Schrooms

 

[floyd]

Lots of farmers just want to put that organic matter back on the field so choppers are a good thing for them. Lots cut high to leave stubble to catch snow.

 

[DejaVu]

I'm in central Kansas. Harvest finished over a month ago here. Sometimes you have to accept certain expenses as "fixed" and look to other areas for cost cutting. You're needing a very seasonal item done to certain specifications. That puts you in a non or limited negotiating situation, in my humble opinion.