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Ilderton, Ontario | putting all your N down at planting for a winter wheat crop shouldn't be practiced. N should be applied in the spring as the wheat greens up. N will help promote tillering, so if you have thin wheat, it should receive the earliest N. Lush stands don't need to have N applied as early, but it should be applied prior to stem elongation. Not to say some N at planting is a bad idea, but P is much more critical. Planting date is the most important thing to consider. If you are in a corn /bean rotation, I can almost gaurantee your bean maturity is too long (for TN I'm not sure), If you are serious about wheat you will grow earlier beans and plant your wheat early. Here we can grow a group 2.0 bean. If we are planning for wheat we will grow a group 0.6 - 1.3 group bean. The 1-2 bushel you give up on bean yield (if it is that much) can easily be made up with 10-20 bushel of additional wheat. | |
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Growing good wheat......
