Our winter wheat was planted late last summer. The crop remained dormant in the field during the winter and reached maturity last week. Harvesting wheat and grain crops is generally referred to as “combining” instead of “harvesting” since the machine used is a combination of a swather and a thresher. The combine takes only the heads of the wheat. Those are shipped to a grain elevator and turned into food products. We never know where our wheat may end up. Perhaps even on your table!
Wheat is an essential element of our sustainable farming practices for many reasons. Crop rotation means we plant different crops on our fields in successive years. This practice ensures that nutrients are not depleted in the soil. It also increases crop yield and prevents soil erosion. Through crop rotation we can decrease our reliance on pesticides since insects and disease attack crops differently.
Once the grain is combined, we work the stalks into the land. While the stalks can be baled into straw and sold for animal bedding, we prefer to take advantage of the organic matter left by working it into the land and bumping up the nutrients in our soil.
You can visit “Spud Smarts – About Growing Potatoes” to find out more about how we grow our crops.
Wheat is an essential element of our sustainable farming practices for many reasons. Crop rotation means we plant different crops on our fields in successive years. This practice ensures that nutrients are not depleted in the soil. It also increases crop yield and prevents soil erosion. Through crop rotation we can decrease our reliance on pesticides since insects and disease attack crops differently.
Once the grain is combined, we work the stalks into the land. While the stalks can be baled into straw and sold for animal bedding, we prefer to take advantage of the organic matter left by working it into the land and bumping up the nutrients in our soil.
You can visit “Spud Smarts – About Growing Potatoes” to find out more about how we grow our crops.
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