WWWI Video: Why Grow Winter Wheat. Do you agree with these farmers?

[Braveheart]

One usual benefit of rotating to winter wheat gives is that it should provide a year that you wouldn't have to use wild oat spray thereby helping delay resistance.

One more strike against is that it takes A LOT of carefully timed N for any yield.

[Jay-mo]

Saving money on wild oat herbicide is not a good idea when you have winter killed areas and drowned out spots. Save now, pay later!!
The best ww crop I ever had was written off by insurance, got a nice check. Then put in canola and harvested a really nice crop! cha-ching!
Now that they only pay for reseeding it makes it less attractive.

[wakopa]

Hmmm with those nice yields and wheat over 7 dollars, rent should be at lest 100 dollars an acre.

[furrowtickler]

They all bring up good points , we have grown winter wheat with very good results and not.
Harvesting dry wheat in mid August and delivering it all it a huge thing - fill up hoppers then ship er out quick.
But .... Winter kill is still a problem in this area , like a few others here said spring wheat yeilds are not far off. In this area we only get canola off in time every second year - maybe. Winter kill areas become a mess later. Seeding at harvest can go smooth or be a train wreck - depends on weather and labour.
We pushed seeding canola too early to try to fit winter wheat - that can be far more costly here.
It has a fit if you are across the southern grain belt and can normally get canola / mustard off by mid to late August . I would not seed winter wheat on any other type of stubble . We tried on pea stubble - it was wiped out .
Our best was just under 100 bus/ac at $6
Our worst was 45 bus/ac at $4.5
Around here winter wheat is like pasture - no rain in May or June means no crop

[sumdumguy]

What do you know about winter Canola?

[Braveheart]

Wakopa, one high yielding wheat crop is just breakeven, without high rent numbers. The rest of the wheat, if it yields 65 say, puts the wheat budget in the red.