Decided to get rich farming... - 07/26/22
And have found it is SOOOO easy I cant believe I waited so long to do this. A couple $M and you can easily clear $10K on a good year, with good weather, and if nothing breaks at the wrong time.
But I was curious on wheat. How variable are your yields and what are the culprits for the variation? Besides the obvious "rain" answer? I got 79 bu/acre this year average and was curious if it was partly caused by having not grown wheat on this property in the reviewable history (and possibly ever)
In any case I was very happy with it and am currently double cropped with beans which are burning up.
I am simply share cropping and my farmer is a very patient fella who goes out of his way to help me be smarter ( no simple task). He was very favourably impressed with my stand of wheat and in many places it topped 100/acre.
This was soft red wheat BTW in SE kansas.
Beans have a bit more of a track record but last year was rough with severe drought really taking its toll on them, hoping for better this year. I have tried to explain to my farmer that there will be no more of this "too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry [bleep]" under the new ownership. Green grass and high times!
In any case I may have to make some choices going forward on which crops to plant and was curious given roughly equal rain how consistent the wheat will yield over long time spans?
But I was curious on wheat. How variable are your yields and what are the culprits for the variation? Besides the obvious "rain" answer? I got 79 bu/acre this year average and was curious if it was partly caused by having not grown wheat on this property in the reviewable history (and possibly ever)
In any case I was very happy with it and am currently double cropped with beans which are burning up.
I am simply share cropping and my farmer is a very patient fella who goes out of his way to help me be smarter ( no simple task). He was very favourably impressed with my stand of wheat and in many places it topped 100/acre.
This was soft red wheat BTW in SE kansas.
Beans have a bit more of a track record but last year was rough with severe drought really taking its toll on them, hoping for better this year. I have tried to explain to my farmer that there will be no more of this "too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry [bleep]" under the new ownership. Green grass and high times!
In any case I may have to make some choices going forward on which crops to plant and was curious given roughly equal rain how consistent the wheat will yield over long time spans?