Looking for info on wheat / milo farming, especialy south central Kansas

I'd contact 4H or NRCS. We deal with both in S.LA

That’s not right on the harvesting wheat twice. They might double crop wheat/milo though. Not sure if that’s widely done out there though.

Is it irrigated? If so, they may be farming wheat in the pivot corners and milo under the circle.

If it’s not, they’re probably just on a Milo-Wheat rotation.

Wheat harvest is going to be late June - early July.

Milo is probably harvested after first frost.

If you have any other specifics you want to divulge, I could probably help you out. Spent some of my childhood on the wheat harvest with stops in Garden City area and Goodland.

If they have pheasants and quail on the property, you should defiantly purchase and send me the coordinates.

I was in northcentral Kansas this past year during the 2nd and 3rd week in November for some pheasant hunting. They were just starting to harvest the Milo. That's about all of my knowledge on this. Never saw any wheat near us.

As far as yield goes, this may help. But coming from a farmer, take university trials with a grain of salt. They’re good info if done right, but sometimes there’s too many variables.

edit: damn, I forgot to link the university trials, but like I said, don’t take this as the gospel. The farm you’re looking at has a yield history on record with FSA.

If anything, you could try to find a county yield history and that may get you within 20% in either direction.

https://www.agronomy.k-state.edu/services/crop-performance-tests/

Trials from research stations are typically under ideal practices, so based on the variation in environment they may not relate as well.

The variety trials are done at actual farms so they may have better accuracy.

The summaries all depend on the farmer reporting accurately, and sometimes they don’t like to report on those poor producing acres

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The summaries all depend on the farmer reporting accurately

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Not necessarily. University variety trials that are done on farms are harvested by university personnel with university equipment. Their data is correct, but they’re harvesting plots where each variety is like the size of a bedroom, at the most.

And if it’s a strip trial done by say Helena Chemical, they’re going to bring their own scales out at harvest and record the data themselves.

In trials, I don’t really pay a ton of attention to the actual bushels/acre. I look for patterns in the trials that are conducted on farms that are similar to ours. I pick out the varieties that are consistently at the top of the pack in those trials, then research agronomic traits and behaviors of those varieties to see if they fit what we’re trying to do on our farm. I usually end up picking out 4 or 5 each year.

No water foul. Some small stock tanks but nothing for them.

Where Pratt has cedar trees and a few creeks, this is ore of a sandy open area. Plum thickets I draws but mostly flat wheat.

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What is milo used for, other than winter feed in Lafourche parish?

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For the most part it is used as a substitute for corn.

It’s bought and sold using the price of corn as a benchmark.

The advantage of milo is that you get the same rotational benefits of corn, without the high cost of growing corn, in drought susceptible situations.