winter wheat

[The Show Maker]

i was wondering i am going to start growing corn next year in about 15 achers and in the winter i was going to plant wheat can i cut and bale wheat will ppl buy wheat or will the cows eat wheat just wondering ... never dun wheat before ... Thanks...

 

[dun]

Wheat when cut at the doe stage makes excellent hay. It may be hardto cure unless run through a conditioner.

dun

 

[Earl Thigpen]

I usually alternate Winter wheat and oats but I always plant mine for Winter forage, never tried baling it. In my part of the country by the time it gets big enough to cut and bale the Winter's almost gone. I suspect it would make pretty good hay, though. I think Dun's right that you should use a crimper or other conditioner when you cut it. It's a little stemy, stemmy, steamy. Oh what the heck, you get the point. (Ha)

Cows eat the heck out of it.