Success StoryImportance of Wheat Growth Stages
Importance of Wheat Growth Stages
Author: Carrie Knott
Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences
Major Program: Grains
Outcome: Initial Outcome
In Spring of 2023, a freeze event occurred at a susceptible wheat growth stage. During the course of visiting with ANR agents and their farmers, a 'crash course' on growth stage was provided.
One farmer said he planned to apply a plant growth regulator, but it would probably be two week or more before he would. However, the wheat was at a growth stage that if he waited that long he would be off label with the application AND it would reduce final grain yield.
The crash course in growth stage saved as much as 40 bushels per acre of yield for this farmer. That equated to about $98,000 assuming this yield reduction would have been across all 400 of his wheat acreage.
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