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Don Pine 07-05-2009 08:56:47 70.41.52.16 18610 Report to Moderator	Should have had the wheat cut a couple weeks ago, but you know the story with the rain. When it finally quit, hay was past ready, ...... Anyway, I"m wanting to bale straw behind the wheat, and haven"t done it before. How low should I cut the stubble? My old combine is a JD 4400 gasser with a 15 ft header. I"m wondering if it could handle the load to cut the wheat low, or if it pays to do so. [Reply]   [Send Email]
James22 07-08-2009 17:11:27 207.179.239.107 18650 Report to Moderator	Re: Advice on wheat straw in reply to Don Pine, 07-05-2009 08:56:47   If the wheat is standing fairly good, cut it high and then mow the stubble. No use sending all that material thru the combine, takes fuel, time and causes more wear.   [Reply]   [No Email]
johns48jdb 07-05-2009 18:04:39 64.12.116.80 18616 Report to Moderator	Re: Advice on wheat straw in reply to Don Pine, 07-05-2009 08:56:47   if you set on the straw until next spring it will bring you a preimum price as all the suppliers run out in the fall and lawn guys go crazy looking for it in the spring. have to control rats close if you can. last time i bought a bale of straw it was last year and it was 4.00 a bale. you can buy alot of fertlize for that. i doubt that you get much food value out of the stubble any way. its more of a help hold the mositure in for beans and keeping weeds down thing that fertlize around here.   [Reply]   [Send Email]
c.w n.y 07-05-2009 18:02:09 71.190.47.229 18615 Report to Moderator	Re: Advice on wheat straw in reply to Don Pine, 07-05-2009 08:56:47   you might have to go a gear ot two slower if you cut the wheat to the ground, so your combine will avoid getting pluged up, we used to cut it right down to the ground when their was a lot of construction around and demand for it. but know its not worth it and i am cutting it high as possible.   [Reply]   [No Email]
Larry NE IL 07-05-2009 10:25:49 68.251.47.83 18611 Report to Moderator	Re: Advice on wheat straw in reply to Don Pine, 07-05-2009 08:56:47   Depends what the straw is worth to you. It will cost you to replace with fertilizer what you take off. As to the 4400....I drilled oats with my alfalfa and cut the oats just above the small alfalfa plants to get the straw, using a 4420 and it worked just fine. Of coarse, that was about five years ago and I got a good buck for the straw from contractors.   [Reply]   [No Email]