10-20 IAN Farmer WB 456
A day in the life of a wheat farmer.
The average Joe probably thinks that a wheat farm is like a huge garden. You plant seeds, you water, and you reap. I have been saying this for years… farmers have to be brilliant in their knowledge. Randy Polatis is a wheat farmer from Southern Idaho and he explains his experience with a wheat variety named WB 456. “This is our 2nd full year. We plant about 3 to 4000 acres of fall grain. We started using it a couple of years ago. 1st of all we liked the thrashing ability. It seemed to thrash really easy and we didn’t see much of it lodged. That can be a big problem in our area with lodging winter wheat. We liked those qualities and the yield was good too. The pounds per bushel were really good, 61 to 62 all the time, it was plump and it was just a good wheat. We planted close to 3500 acres, I think 3000 of it was 456 but we have a lot of winter kill. It was just a tough winter for winter wheat in our area. We have other varieties that killed out because of snow mold. Because of this wet spring we had this year we have a lot of rust. We didn’t see any rust in any of our 456 and we even left some test strips.” Farming, facing and surmounting challenges.
