SJH Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 So I planted a 110 acres of yamhill soft white winter wheat the next dry spell I'm going to put some fertilizer on it . It's going to be interesting on what I do with it round bale or combine it and big straw bales . What are you're guys thoughts 🤔  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisNY Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Not sure what you are asking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acem Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Harvest the grain if feasible this year. Â 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I wish we would have planted more hard red wheat here than we did now. I don’t know what white wheat is worth, but red wheat is good property to have right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain Heritage Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 If it makes flour, harvest it! Crap keeps going on over yonder, they will be begging for flour come fall. Your wheat might be worth a lot? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N S Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 My throughs are that if you've already planted it, if the price of heat holds, and indications are with the state of Ukraine and wheat availability being a mite short, feel the wheat and bale or turn under the leftover and sell the straw. I still got 1 ft of snow on the ground and am planning on wheat planting. But that depends on where the price of fuel etc. is in another month. May have to just call it a day and go fishin. But that's just my $.03 cents worth, inflation ya know. Not that my opinion is actually worth that much. If I didn't make bad decisions I wouldn't be making any at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
806 man Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 20 hours ago, SJH said: So I planted a 110 acres of yamhill soft white winter wheat the next dry spell I'm going to put some fertilizer on it . It's going to be interesting on what I do with it round bale or combine it and big straw bales . What are you're guys thoughts 🤔  Go for the Gold!! Then bale it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missouri Mule Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Normally I would say the straw will yield more money than the wheat. At least in my area anyway. This year you might just come out good by combining it and baling the straw. I've even considered round baling my straw and building a makeshift stationary square baler. Watched alot of videos on guys building them out of tread mills or spinning the straw off. My area a square bale of straw will easily fetch $7 if its clean and bright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbyfarm Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Missouri Mule said: Normally I would say the straw will yield more money than the wheat. At least in my area anyway. This year you might just come out good by combining it and baling the straw. I've even considered round baling my straw and building a makeshift stationary square baler. Watched alot of videos on guys building them out of tread mills or spinning the straw off. My area a square bale of straw will easily fetch $7 if its clean and bright. Small squares of straw usually are cheap here. Most of the horse people have moved to shavings. Big bales currently $120ish per ton. Stationary baling sucks without the proper bale feeder. We do a bunch of it making a bale size that fits 50 to a pallet for the fall pumpkins type markets. Not sure why the pic is sideways. The wagon pic is field baled. We would much rather field bale but we only have so much capacity and time is of the essence for soybean planting.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirt_Floor_Poor Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Small squares here get good money, the problem is people only want two or three bales at a time. You end up making a thousand trips to collect it all $20 at a time. As expensive as storage, machinery and labor is it would take more than $7 to get me to bale it that way. If the wheat doesn’t make money here it’s not worth doing. The straw is good if you can sell it, but it’s a headache at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Guy I knew had a 10 bale minimum for hay. What hay I sell I don't deliver. They come to me. Any who ask I tell them I dont have the equipment or time to deliver. Both true. I have had people get 1 bale for their kids rabbit or what ever. If they come to me I will sell them 1. Has only happened a few times tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missouri Mule Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 I would bet if you look closer to town and make a few calls square bales of straw are higher than you think. My buddy worked out a deal with a couple places in town to where they sold it. He would bring them a trailer load at a time until it was gone. Worked out good for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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