Freewheat - Pasteur Wheat

[Klause]

Texting you is kinda unreliable....


Pasteur is all of 2 weeks later than Unity is. This is on the same field, Pasteur seeded before lunch, Unity after. Same fertility treatments, same spray, etc. etc.


Pasteur responds very well to growth regulators. It also needs to be seeded heavier as it does not tiller as much as our varieties we found.

It yields like an SOB though, and stands up to damp / rain / wet weather far better than any other HRS.


First image is the Pasteur heads the day the Unity was combined.




These are field pics.

[biglentil]

Anyone getting much of a premium over feed for it?

[freewheat]

Thanks for the info Klause. Two weeks later scares me tho. Looks like British wheat fields, funky looking stuff! Thanks for posting pics etc...

[Partners]

Freewheat..If interested in our area, talk to Tom Boyes at Kelvington..He grow alot of it..He is a seed grower..
Has had very good luck with it..Plus he can see the hog barns from his yard...

[Ooofty]

When I bought my seed they said some companies would buy it for milling wheat. That did not happen,they all will only buy it as feed because the falling number is so low. Something like 200 when my spring wheat was just over 300. Guys I talked to said US buyers have more strict requirements for falling number then Canadian buyers which I was surprised at after listening to the CWB tell us for years our wheat was higher quality then US wheat.

[Klause]

Ours went to Viterra in MB 6 bucks a bu

[wmoebis]

Klause $6 less trucking etc? What was net?

[bigzee]

I grew it 2 yrs ago, had very nice crop, 75. I'm in south central sk so figured that was a good yield. I tried over and over to sell into milling market with no success. Theres so much high milling red wht in the world they don't need a "utility" wht. In hind sight I should have seeded that section to durum, most of my durum was sold for $12.60
Even in my area its a very late variety.

[Klause]

Wmoebis trucking cost me 10 cents a bu as they helped pay for it... we had the choice to haul it to Raymore also but had fert coming from Brandon this way so dumping in Souris worked out for us

[biglentil]

Viterra had a very short term special on GP wheat lasted all of a week at 6 bucks or so. Viterra just lately quoted 5.25 on feed other day, but thats what Terra grain has been at all winter. Definetly more is mined out of the soil to produce. Is it worth it over HRSW? I doubt it.

[Klause]

Depends where you are, right?


In this area we have poundmaker and 2 feed mills within 15 miles. Viterra feed special was 5.50 last week, our mills have been 5.40 to 5.60 all winter.

All the hard red made a 3 or feed with low protein... and yielded poorly last year in the 30s and 40s while pasteur was 60s and 70s.


Of course if you can grow 1 and 2 red consistently there's no point growing pasteur...

[Klause]

This year we will have 200ac of Pasteur and 460 of Shaw on our farm...