This is our third year seeding wheat. Our brother -in-law Chris Stearn was an avid baker. He got really excited about growing wheat for the Hawthorne Valley Bakery where he worked, and someday for his own bread baking venture. We found a very well taken care of Allis Chalmers All-Crop harvester pull behind combine which runs off the PTO of our tractor...and the rest is history.
Chris passed away in December of 2007. We miss him terribly, but are thanful for the wheat seeds that he planted here. 2008 was our first successful crop, so we saved our wheat, and planted a little over 5 acres this spring.
The grain drill was set to seed just over 100 lbs to the acre. The grain drill holds about 300 lbs of seed, and seeds the rows are 7" apart,
This field grew our fall carrots, peppers, celery, celeriac, and sweet potatoes in 2008. We seeded in late March this year, thanks to some early warm and dry days. After our wheat crop is harvested we will follow with oats or buckwheat, depending on when the harvest date actually occurs. Last year it was early August.
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