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Colby, Kansas | John,
I agree and think thats a valid point. There is some trade off in the skip-row system where there are some gains and then also losses (surface evaporation from the skips). I don't think we have a good handle yet on where that threshold is between saving water in the skip vs. what you evaporate off the top. The wind erosion concern is real, especially if the wheat proceeding the corn was lousy. I would make the argument that good wheat stubble is even more critical in skip-row than conventional for the reasons you mention.
Have all your wheat in? Are your fall crops going to turn out well? I was in Sterling and Akron in mid August and things around there and at the station looked good I though, much much better than we looked in Tribune at the time.
How has your success with proso been, any gut feeling on yield differences between wheat after proso and true fallow wheat?
Lucas
Edited by LHaag 9/30/2008 23:18
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