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October 5

 

general-area-rainedMan, it’s been dry. Thank goodness it finally rained. Our field needed some rain to break up those huge clods.

 

closeup-rainedWell, we’ve still got clods, but they appear to be a little softer and breaking apart so that our next tillage operation will work out great. Let’s look a little closer.
There are some plants starting to grow now. What kind of seedlings are these? Well, let’s think about that question for a second. What was the crop that was planted here last year. volunteer-emerging-rainedThat’s right....wheat. These are wheat seedlings from this past summer’s crop. When this field was harvested last summer some seeds were scattered on the ground and didn’t germinate until the recent rains. This is not unusual for seed to be lost during the harvest operation and for that seed grow later in the summer or fall. This wheat is called "volunteer wheat" and we really don’t want it to grow. So, we’ll need to till the soil again to get rid of it.

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