Ooo smells like a brewery here

[Rondar]

Yes Repo, daughter is a Jayhawk.  She got her masters there.  Baitman, we dont grow hay here where we live, and it is all dryland farming for us.  We grow wheat, millet (birdseed) and some milo.  Have a few cattle around too.

[Baitman]

I have been looking for some more farmland in another area to help mitigate the crop failures. I Would like a dryland or irritation (yes I spelled it correct) farm 8+ quarters in the belt from Texas up to Alberta or Saskatchewan. Been looking for 16 months now, need to be in an area that I can grow land base. I would prefer to grow cereals (Durum, Red Spring, barley) oil seeds (Canola) and peas.

What is your area like, does anyone grow malt barley? Winter wheat?

[Rondar]

I have been looking for some more farmland in another area to help mitigate the crop failures. I Would like a dryland or irritation (yes I spelled it correct) farm 8+ quarters in the belt from Texas up to Alberta or Saskatchewan. Been looking for 16 months now, need to be in an area that I can grow land base. I would prefer to grow cereals (Durum, Red Spring, barley) oil seeds (Canola) and peas.

What is your area like, does anyone grow malt barley? Winter wheat?

winter wheat, yes.  red hard winter wheat, usually tam 111  and t84 for us.  we grew some barley about 20 years ago but area just is not set up for much more than wheat millet milo sunflower soybeans and corn for most part.  Barley is so darn itchy I dont really want to be around it much either, although milo is itchy also.  spring wheat just does not do well here at all.

[Masherbrum]

  just messin with ya Von.  But i would like a taste test

In 5 years squeaker!!!   Paging Mom and Pop Banshee7!   

[Baitman]

winter wheat, yes.  red hard winter wheat, usually tam 111  and t84 for us.  we grew some barley about 20 years ago but area just is not set up for much more than wheat millet milo sunflower soybeans and corn for most part.  Barley is so darn itchy I dont really want to be around it much either, although milo is itchy also.  spring wheat just does not do well here at all.

Seems like from what you are growing that the summers are hot. Must have good heat units for corn, soybean and sunflower. Is the soil a dark brown loam? Do you have much winter kill in the wheat or do you get a good snow cover. What rain fall do you expect in the summer. Sorry about all the question 

[Rondar]

Seems like from what you are growing that the summers are hot. Must have good heat units for corn, soybean and sunflower. Is the soil a dark brown loam? Do you have much winter kill in the wheat or do you get a good snow cover. What rain fall do you expect in the summer. Sorry about all the question 

Irrigated corn does merely ok here.  Normally in summer ( it blows almost all year tho)  we have hot winds that just burn the leaves on crops growing after july.  Our altitude 3600+ feet.  Our rainfall normally is approx 17 inches which is semi-arid.  This year where I live we have only had 3" of rain and hardly any snowcover.  We always lose a little wheat to winterkill, as our temps will dip to -20 F on occasion.  The corn grown here is mainly people planting it and collecting a government check when the corn burns up on dryland.  Soybeans are sporadic although there is a little irrigated soy around. 

Here is a link, if you are interested in agriculture in western kansas.  It is to the crop experiment station that has been here in our county a long time. 

http://www.wkarc.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=38

[Baitman]

Thanks for the link Rondar.   It seems that you are a little short on precipitation this year. You say the wind blows, is there any wind farms around? Just the same as around here we have to get our crops in early or in the fall either that or irrigate. We have corn but only for silage and a neighbor tried soy beans (organic) but the weeds choked them out. Our spring White wheat is yellow with only a few spots of green left, the winter wheat is all yellow looking for the combine now. Getting ready for our second cut of dryland hay the irrigated boys have already taken 2nd looking at 3rd.

[angelsandair]

In 5 years squeaker!!!   Paging Mom and Pop Banshee7!   

There's nothing wrong with a "Hey Mister" 

[VonMessa]

I have been looking for some more farmland in another area to help mitigate the crop failures. I Would like a dryland or irritation (yes I spelled it correct) farm 8+ quarters in the belt from Texas up to Alberta or Saskatchewan. Been looking for 16 months now, need to be in an area that I can grow land base. I would prefer to grow cereals (Durum, Red Spring, barley) oil seeds (Canola) and peas.

What is your area like, does anyone grow malt barley? Winter wheat?

Anyone that grows malt barley gets a big  from me.

With the hop shortages of late, the last thing I look forward to is expensive grain, also.  It is bad enough that the local home brew store is drying up with some varieties.   

Support your local farmers, guys.       

[Engine]

I think anyone posting threads about cooking meat needs to post pictures. Should be a new forum rule.