How Dry Weather Impacted Fall 2012

Bill has been planting winter wheat for the past seven years, but this year was different. “We decided not to plant winter wheat this season – we didn’t get enough rain, and the drought left our ground too dry,” Bill explained. “On our farm, spring wheat out-yields winter wheat as most of our rain comes in May, after the spring wheat has been planted.”

“Right in our area of central North Dakota, there are very few who plant winter wheat. It’s spring wheat country over here,” he said. “We harvested winter wheat in 2012, but we just didn’t plant any. We actually didn’t have any fall-seeded crops that went in the ground this season.”

Oct. 27-28 was very cold weekend in Harvey, N.D., and Bill took the time to apply anhydrous nitrogen fertilizer into his pinto bean ground. “While it’s too late to plant winter wheat, we’re still prepping the ground for when we seed spring wheat in 2013,” he said. “We apply the fertilizer to about 25 acres per hour,” he explained.

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