Wheat School: YEN results show grower decisions really matter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- In 2022, the top 20 growers in the Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) harvested 50 bu/ac more wheat than the bottom 20 growers in overall yield rankings.
What's really surprising, says RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson, is that this gap exists despite there being only a five percent difference in yield potential between the two groups when the winter wheat crop was planted. Overall, the top growers averaged 139 bu/ac while the bottom group checked in in at 89 bushels.
Johnson says there's a very important message here for all wheat growers: "It says Mr. Grower, you matter; and the decisions you make matter... I think that's a powerful piece of information. If you're in the bottom 20, there's room for improvement. Even if you're in the top 20, there's room for improvement."
On this episode the RealAgriculture Wheat School, Johnson and Michigan State University wheat systems specialist Dennis Pennington dive into the 2022 Great Lakes YEN results to identify key management insights from the second year of the program. Coordinated by the Grain Farmers of Ontario, Michigan State University, Michigan Wheat Program, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and the University of Guelph, the Great Lakes YEN project helps farmers learn from each other about new ways to improve winter wheat yields.
The program kicked off in 2021 with 43 growers before expanding in 2022 with 98 growers completing the project. For 2023, enrolment will soar to 170 growers. In the 2022 competition, Jeffery Krohn, from Elkton, Michigan, won both the yield and per cent of potential yield categories with 165.92 bu/ac while achieving 87.97 per cent of potential. Andy Timmermans from Stratford, Ont., finished second in both categories with 150.19 bu/ac and 79.07 per cent yield potential.
In the video, Pennington and Johnson dig into the data to identify the leading yield contributors. Pennington says the highest correlation for high grain yield is biomass. "What that means is you need to produce the biggest crop that you can produce. Get that canopy closed as early in the season as you can, so that you're able to capture as much solar energy as possible through photosynthesis, to get that crop to grow. The bigger the crop in terms of total above ground biomass, the bigger the yield potential is on that field."
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Great presentation guys … well done
Hello sir
Great info- thanks mates
Regards from Australia
I really wish I could get Pete to come to the "wheat state" of Kansas and have a meeting with the local farmers around here! I'd like to know if we just get too hot too soon or what it is. I'd pass out if we got 80 bushels per acre! I've changed alot since I started watching this channel several years ago but something always happens to the crop. It's flood or drought or heat.. Every year I get excited because the wheat looks so good but we always end up with around 40 bushels per acre.. Even when some fields look really good they just don't yield. I'm having better luck with cOrN!! Lol
I am in Missouri and get more moisture than most of KS, but as you say it's a struggle to break out of average. We can easily get 80 some years, but it doesn't easily go above that. I think a heat shortened season is part of our problem, but don't give up!
Pete loves to travel! Send him an email at pjohnson@realagriculture.com
Was just talking about going to a lower pop today, wheat seems to tiller better when it has some room to breath
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Great presentation sir
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G,day from Sydney Australia.
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How do they measure the quantities of seed per hectare or area.
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