This shows a head of wheat while the berries are still soft and green. We call this the soft-dough stage. Most of the berries are getting full and filling out--which is wonderful for us.
Put hundreds, thousands, millions...bunches & bunches.... of these heads of wheat together and we get about 900+ acres of wheat that we're planning on harvesting.
When you have that much green-stuff growing, you're going to have pests. We have bad bugs (worms) and then we have the good lady bugs:
While we were out spot-checking for worms, the neighbor hired a local aerial service to rid his worm problem. We didn't see enough damage from the pest to warrant the spraying..........yet.
3 comments:
Good luck with your crops this year and I really hope that you don't have to get help to deal with the worms.
I love your photos of the wheat and of your cat. Thanks for sharing!
I LOVE growing wheat :) And harvesting too :) To bad there isn't the money in it there used to be...although it has really come up in the last year. We are currently growing Hard Red Spring and Winter Wheat- so I've been monitoring the price pretty regularly.
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