Wheat harvest? What wheat harvest

dennishoddy · May 3, 2012

Went to check on my wheat fields last night. First two fields are about 5' under water from the floods in grant county, and couldn't get within 2 miles of the other field as water had the road blocked. I suspect it's underwater as well.
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1000YRDSHOT · May 3, 2012

Thats crazy, Dennis!

Wormydog1724 · May 3, 2012

Sorry to hear that Dennis! Last year was the drought, now its the floods! Ahhh gotta love Oklahoma.

joshappel · May 3, 2012

That sux! How many acres?

dennishoddy · May 3, 2012

320 so far. If the other field is lost, it will be 440. The ol' ammo budget may have just taken a serious hit.

Swavy00 · May 3, 2012

That's awful!!

okie-carbine · May 3, 2012

that sucks. the wheat around altus is knee high and just about ready for harvest.

shootingbuff · May 3, 2012

Wish you well and the best of luck.

DoctorJJ · May 3, 2012

Hopefully you were insured.

dennishoddy · May 3, 2012

Unfortunately after the drought last year, the cost of insurance wasn't an option. A couple of other quarters that weren't flooded will help alleviate the loss.

Jeff T. · May 4, 2012

Dennis,
Sorry for the loss. It's not much better here, but iit's not the rain. The hail from about 3 weeks ago made for 2 fields(about 400 acres total) become hay.

Iggie · May 4, 2012

That sucks... cut the losses throw in some fish and go fishing!

draught, Bugs, floods...what's next in this great state?

dennishoddy · May 4, 2012

Piedmont3 said:
Dennis,
Sorry for the loss. It's not much better here, but iit's not the rain. The hail from about 3 weeks ago made for 2 fields(about 400 acres total) become hay.

Ouch! Yeah, that hail will cause major problems. That yours?

Jeff T. · May 4, 2012

No, Not mine, belongs to a good friend, I usually help them out hauling hay.

dennishoddy · May 21, 2012

Cutting a couple of quarters. Started with a test cut on Saturday, that got 63.0 lbs per bushel. First truck load today checked in a US#1 with 64.5 lbs per bushel. I don't know how it goes around anywhere else, but in my neck of the woods, that is like shooting a perfect hose down with all A's

It will help offset the flooded fields.\ that were lost.

Wormydog1724 · May 21, 2012

We started cutting last Wednesday. We have probably 150 cut, just another 3,700 acres to go. I don't know what the yields are going to be like, but I think they're going to be good. The test weight is around 61# which pretty average. The moisture was 13.7 when we started and it was down to 10.8 by Saturday. The rains will have us shut down for a few days.

Wormydog1724 · May 21, 2012

Its funny because in all three of those pictures, its like the worst wheat we've cut so far. Its laying down in the first pic and there's a lot of weeds in the other two. lol. I'll probably post some 'better' ones later this week once we're going again.

dennishoddy · May 21, 2012

yeah, we won't know yields until its all cut. Its looking good though.

I will say, that in all of my years, and the wife's uncle that is sharing in the cutting,(87yrs old) this is the earliest any of us has seen a wheat harvest.

1000YRDSHOT · May 22, 2012

dennishoddy said:
yeah, we won't know yields until its all cut. Its looking good though.

I will say, that in all of my years, and the wife's uncle that is sharing in the cutting,(87yrs old) this is the earliest any of us has seen a wheat harvest.

Do you think that it has something to do with the warmer than usual winter and spring?