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Fertilizing Your Wheat Crop Based on Solid Data

Krissy Lampe — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:18:57 +0000

With wheat harvest barely in the rearview mirror, it is not too early to start thinking about next year’s wheat crop. That starts with knowing the nutrient levels in your fields. Whether you are planning on planting in fallow ground, or planting continuous wheat, it is important to have the information necessary to fertilize each [...]

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2024 Wheat Harvest Report

Krissy Lampe — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:55:48 +0000

To say the least, wheat is a resilient crop. As usual, our 2024 winter wheat crop had numerous challenges across Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. For the most part, planting conditions were good, with adequate soil moisture to get the crop established. In many areas, we had excess fall growth, which reduced reserve soil moisture [...]

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Understanding Grain Fill Weather – Optimizing Wheat Yield

Krissy Lampe — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:08:56 +0000

We are headed into the all-important grain fill period of wheat where temperatures greatly affect the overall yield of the crop. Ideally, we want to see a long grain fill period. The duration of grain fill is mainly determined by temperature. The more moderate the temperatures are during this period, the longer grain fill will [...]

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Wheat Disease Pressure Expected to be High This Year

Krissy Lampe — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:00:49 +0000

What a difference a year makes. Last year the extended drought made it difficult to establish wheat stands or allow for extensive fall or spring growth. That led to lower than normal disease pressure in 2023. We are looking at a very different situation in 2024. Over most of the High Plains, we have [...]

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Grazing Wheat Tips

Tracy Smith — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:33:56 +0000

With the good winter moisture that we received over the High Plains, we have had some very good early growth on our wheat crop. Cattle producers have been able to take advantage of this grazing potential which hopefully has resulted in good weight gain on their animals. But wheat grazing season is rapidly coming to [...]

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Fall Wheat Planting

Corry Israel — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:30:10 +0000

It’s not too early to start thinking about this fall’s wheat crop. With adequate soil moisture across the High Plains, we are looking forward to getting this upcoming wheat crop off to a good start. Starting this crop with a proper fertility program is important. Your Crop Quest Agronomist can help you with this [...]

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Wheat Streak Mosaic Management in Southwest Kansas

Corry Israel — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 20:42:32 +0000

Throughout the year, we look to our Agronomists and Precision Ag Specialists for their expertise and input on providing timely and knowledgeable articles to our customers and industry leaders via our electronic newsletter. Every summer, we challenge our Interns to do the same. We award up to 5 scholarships per year for winning articles. The [...]

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Managing Wheat Fertility

Corry Israel — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 22:04:57 +0000

Anhydrous tanks are dotting the countryside as growers prepare for wheat planting this fall. Nitrogen is a key nutrient for a successful wheat crop, but it is not the only nutrient or soil amendment that needs to be evaluated as you prepare for the upcoming crop. Soil tests are a very valuable tool to [...]

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Army Cutworms in Alfalfa – Agronomy Tip

Tracy Smith — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 18:00:48 +0000

Crop Quest President & Agronomist, Dwight Koops, digging for cutworms. The season has kicked off with warmer temperatures allowing alfalfa to break for many and wheat is putting on new tillers – especially on some of the later planted wheat fields. Unfortunately, these warmer temperatures are making army cutworms active as well. These [...]

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Controlling Volunteer Wheat

Tracy Smith — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:00:49 +0000

As wheat planting season approaches, a couple important questions arise. When should we kill the volunteer wheat, and how soon before drilling? Volunteer wheat needs to be controlled at least two weeks prior to drilling. This should eliminate the majority of pests that are using the volunteer wheat as a host. Producers may not have [...]

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