Although our crop was planted early, we haven't seen much damage. Our vomitoxin tests came back as a 1.4, which is easily under 2 that mills prefer. A big reason for this is the new scab resistant variety of spring wheat we used called Alsen. Our spring wheat crop is looking very promising. But in today's grain market, a good crop isn't all you need.
Today marketing our crop is almost as important as growing it.
With the help of Jeff Mehl of Cenex Harvest States we hope to get the most out of our efforts. We have a fixed contract on one third of our crop and the rest will go into storage which we hope to lock in a price around Thanksgiving. We were looking at our field today with Kent McKay of the North Central Research Extension Center. Things are looking good. We are doing some yield estimates and the crop looks like its got a potential for fifty bushels.