Wheat has good winter hardiness and can burn up with excess heat. It can tolerate a wide range of soils, but does not tolerate flooding at all. Growth Habitat: Wheat is an annual grass that usually is planted at the end of the summer.
It overwinters and then starts growing and maturing towards the end of spring and beginning of the summer. Plant Characteristics: Wheat is a bunch grass with upright tillers. The leaves are rolled in the whorl. Leaf blades are smooth near the base and rough near tip on the upper side. Lower side entirely smooth. There are several different varieties to choose from depending on the time of year and how you want to utilize your harvest.
Wheat is broadly categorized into Winter wheat and Spring wheat. Winter wheat is high yielding and is planted in the Fall and harvested in the Spring or Summer of the following year depending on location.
Spring wheat is not as high yielding but tolerated drier conditions. It is planted in the Spring and harvested in the Fall. Both Spring and Winter wheat is then further categorized as soft wheat, hard wheat, spelt or durum.
Wheat will grow optimally in a deep, fertile, well draining and well aerated soil at a pH between 5. Planting Winter wheat varieties should be planted in the Fall approximately 6 to 8 weeks before the first frost date. Spring wheat varieties should be planted as soon as the soil can be worked in the Spring.
Commercially grown wheat is usually mechanically drilled using a machine that creates a furrow and drops the seed in before covering it back up. Wheat seeds can be sown by hand broadcasting in smaller areas, or using a hand-cranked seeder.
Seeds are usually sown to at depths ranging from 2 to 12 cm 0. Once the seeds have been scattered, the soil should be raked lightly to set the seeds at the desired depth.
Harvesting Wheat is ready to harvest when the stalks and heads have turned from green to yellow and the seed heads are drooping towards the ground. Check the seeds for ripeness before harvest. The should be firm and crunchy and not doughy in texture. Commercially produced wheat is usually harvested using a combine.
Smaller plots can be harvested by hand using a scythe or sickle. Small plots can be harvested by snipping off the heads with a pair of scissors. This page is available in French.
Content Content 1. Diseases - Bacterial. Pests - Insects. See questions about Wheat. Wheat harvest. Ripe wheat close-up. Wheat spikes. Combine harvesting wheat. Immature wheat. Close-up of ripe wheat spike. Wheat seed head spike. Wheat seedlings. Wheat field. Commercially produced wheat is usually harvested by combine.
Winter wheat seedlings. Common Pests and Diseases Diseases. Category : Bacterial. Symptoms of bacterial streak on wheat leaves. Foliar symptoms on field plants. Symptoms of black chaff on head. Sudden appearance of water-soaked, light brown, elongated lesions on upper leaves; lesions quickly dry out and turn into necrotic streaks on the leaves; black stripes occur on glumes and purple black lesions appear on rachis and peduncle if infection is in the head.
Management Avoid planting seed from infected fields; avoid overhead irrigation; plant less susceptible cultivars. Hard white shares its territory with Hard Red Winter wheat, but is grown on a much smaller scale. This class is great for Asian Noodles ramen, anyone? Durum is for you pasta lovers out there! This wheat has a high protein aka gluten content that is perfecto for pasta and couscous.
Categorizing the kinds of wheat gets even more complex than filing it in a class. Modern day varieties are like the books that make up the wheat library. Every farmer has to decide which book to check out before he leaves. He will avoid going to the other genres, but he has to do some research about which book sounds good to read.
Or maybe a farmer likes both adventure and romance books. They are both in the same wing of the library, so he can browse back and forth between sections, but ultimately the books he will check out are from these two genres. Some geographic regions are well suited to multiple classes of wheat, but farmers have to know which wheat will work best on their farm. Everest is a popular variety planted in central Kansas, but TAM is a little better suited for the Texas panhandle.
They are both hard red winter wheat varieties, but they are better suited to different geographic conditions.
0コメント