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Willow Creek Winter Wheat

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has anyone had any experience with this? i was calling around looking for some winter triticale seed, and had guy trying to talk me into seeding willow creek winter wheat. from what i gather, it's been used quite a bit in Montana.

http://www.animalrangeextension.montana.edu/articles/forage/2007_willowcreek.pdf
 
I saw an article in some magazine while waiting for my banker. It sounds very interesting with the output they were talking about. I would take a hard look at it if I was planting feed for this time of year.
 
Never heard of a Willow Creek winter wheat- and I live on one of the many Montana Willow Creeks..... If I was you I would call Saco Dehy and talk to their seed man--406-527-3470... If its been used in the area they would know.....

But I do know that with the moisture we have this year (200-300% of normal at this time of year) there are a lot of folks looking/trying to seed winter wheat...

But because of all the rain- many still have to get crops harvested first before they can think of seeding :shock: :(
 
I've seen some of it around as my closest neighbor planted some last fall. It got extremely tall(5 ft. in some places) and yielded very well. I believe he ended up getting around 5 1400# bales an acre off of it. I am gonna plant some this fall but I am going to seed it a bit thicker as I thought it looked awful coarse standin 3.5 to 5 ft tall. He is gonna run it through a hay processor so it should help the palability some. Looks like an easy solution to a hay shortage in my opinion.
 
badroute said:
I've seen some of it around as my closest neighbor planted some last fall. It got extremely tall(5 ft. in some places) and yielded very well. I believe he ended up getting around 5 1400# bales an acre off of it. I am gonna plant some this fall but I am going to seed it a bit thicker as I thought it looked awful coarse standin 3.5 to 5 ft tall. He is gonna run it through a hay processor so it should help the palability some. Looks like an easy solution to a hay shortage in my opinion.
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how much should a person seed per acre?
 

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