Colorado Wheat Farmer

VOL. 55, NO. 3 Summer 2013 Colorado <a href="/goto?url=http://www.coloradowheat.org" target="_blank">www.coloradowheat.org </a>Wheat Farmer OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE COLORADO WHEAT ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE President’s Column Colorado Winter Wheat Harvest Smallest Since ‘06 By Steve Beedy <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Colorado </li><li style="flex:1">winter </li><li style="flex:1">wheat </li></ul>In my first president’scolumn, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Steve Beedy, and I was born and raised on a farm north of production in 2013 is projected at 43,500,000 bushels, down 59 percent from 73,780000 bushels produced last year, and down 60 percent from the 10-year average crop of 71,978,000 bushels. The estimate for the 2013 Colorado winter wheat crop is based upon 1,500,000 acres being harvested with an average yield of 29.0 bushels per acre. This compares with 2,170,000 acres harvested last year and the 10-year average of 2,122,000 acres harvested. An estimated 2,200,000 acres were planted last fall for harvest in 2013, compared with 2,350,000 acres planted for harvest in 2012 and the 10-year average of 2,395,000 acres planted for harvest. Colorado ranked 14th in winter wheat production for 2013, compared to tenth in 2012 and sixth in 2011. 1,500,000 acres is the lowest amount of harvested acres for Colorado since 1965. Approximately 700,000 acres were totally abandoned and not harvested in Baca, Prowers, Bent, Kiowa and Cheyenne counties due to poor emergence last fall or drought and freeze damage this spring. Some farmers in the Holly, Cheyenne Wells and Brandon area harvested no wheat at all, some for the first time in their farm history, and some for the first time since the 1950s. On August 12, USDA estimated U.S. all-wheat production (the sum total of winter, spring and durum production)in2013at2,114,085,000 bushels, down seven percent from 2,269,117,000 bushels in 2012, and Genoa, Colorado. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">The farm </li><li style="flex:1">I</li><li style="flex:1">live on was </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">homesteaded </li><li style="flex:1">by </li><li style="flex:1">my </li><li style="flex:1">great- </li></ul>grandparents in 1894 and I live in the house they built in 1900. I graduated from Colorado State University (CSU) with a B.S. in Farm/Ranch management. The farm is operated by my parents, Raymond and Gloria, my brother Gary, my three sons ages 13, 25, and 30, and myself. We grow all dryland crops with no-till and min-till wheat, corn, and sunflowers and also have a commercial cow/calf operation. I started serving on the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee (CWAC) board in the 1990s as an alternate for Lincoln County. I also serve on several other boards: Arikaree Ground Water Board, HiPlains Soil Conservation Board and the Lincoln County Tourism Board. While on the CWAC board I have had the pleasure of serving on several related boards, such as the Wheat Foods Council (WFC) and the Wheat Marketing Center (WMC). The WFC educates and promotes the use of wheat in the domestic market. The WMC in Portland, Oregon does education on the quality of U.S. wheat and milling and baking classes for domestic and overseas markets. I am currently serving on the U.S. Wheat Associates (USWA) board, representing Colorado wheat growers. USWA works on exports of Hard white winter wheat harvest at Anderson Farms near Dailey this July. down two percent from the 10-year average of 2,165,663,900 bushels. U.S. winter wheat production in 2013 is estimated at 1,542,605,000 bushels, down six percent from 1,645,202,000 bushels in 2012, and down less than one percent from the 10-year average of 1,552,150,200 bushels. U.S. spring wheat production in 2012 is estimated at 511,280,000 bushels, down six percent from 541,959,000 bushels in 2012, and down three percent from the 10-year average of 529,041,600 bushels. U.S. durum wheat production in 2012 is estimated at 60,200,000 bushels, down 27 percent from 81,956,000 bushels in 2012, and down 29 percent from the 10-year average of 84,472,100 bushels. Kansas winter wheat production is projected at 328,200,000 bushels in 2013, down 14 percent from 2012 production of 382,000,000 bushels, and down six percent from the 10-year average of 349,380,000 bushels. Oklahoma production winter projected wheat <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">at </li><li style="flex:1">is </li></ul>115,500,000 bushels in 2013, a decrease of 25 percent from 154,800,000 bushels in 2013, and down seven percent from the 10-year average of 124,110,000 bushels. Texas winter wheat production is projected at 64,000,000 bushels in 2013, down 33 percent from 96,000,000 bushels in 2012, and 30 percent from the 10-year average of 90,845,000 bushels. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Nebraska </li><li style="flex:1">winter </li><li style="flex:1">wheat </li></ul>productionisprojectedat41,760,000 bushels in 2013, down 22 percent from 53,300,000 bushels in 2012, and down 40 percent from the 10- year average of 69,176,000 bushels. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">The </li><li style="flex:1">next </li><li style="flex:1">USDA </li><li style="flex:1">Crop </li></ul>Cont’d on p. 8 Production Report will be released September 12. Help the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee Update Our Mailing List In preparation for the Spring 2014 referendum to re-approve the two-cent wheat assessment, the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee (CWAC) is updating our mailing list. Thank you to everyone who has updated your address with us so far. We want to keep you on our mailing list if you are still farming, have your wheat ground in CRP, receive income as a landlord, rent land to farm and receive income from a wheat crop, own land that someone else farms for you, share-crop, receive income from a trust that owns land that is farmed for wheat, or otherwise receive any income from wheat farming. If you no longer receive any income from wheat farming, directly or indirectly, and you would like to be removed from our mailing list, please call 1-800-Wheat-10 V I C E R E Q U E S C T H E A D N G E S E R P e r m i t N o . 1 3 1 2 , C O D e n v e r A P I D (1-800-943-2810) or email [email protected]. Also, please let us F o r t C o l l i n s , C O 8 0 5 2 5 know if you are receiving multiple copies of our mailings. i m T b e r l i n e 4 R 0 d 2 . , 6 S S t e . . 1 0 0 A d m i n i s t r a t i v e C o C m o m l o i r t a t e d e o W h e a t If you are retired and no longer farming but still enjoy receiving our publications, U . S . P o s t a g e N o n - P r o fi t O r g . please let us know and we will mark you as such on our list, and you still may <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">r m F e a r </li><li style="flex:1">C o l o r a d o W h e a t </li></ul>receive The Colorado Wheat Farme r . 2 COLORADO WHEAT FARMER SUMMER 2013 2013 Collaborative On-Farm Test (COFT) Results 2013 Collaborative On-Farm Tests (COFT) Variety Performance Results <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2013 Varietiesa </li><li style="flex:1">COFT </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Average </li><li style="flex:1">Byrd </li><li style="flex:1">Antero </li><li style="flex:1">Brawl CL Plus </li><li style="flex:1">Denali </li><li style="flex:1">Hatcher </li><li style="flex:1">Snowmass </li></ul>Yield Test Wt Yield Test Wt Yield Test Wt Yield Test Wt Yield Test Wt Yield Test Wt Yield Test Wt <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">County/Town </li><li style="flex:1">bu/acb </li><li style="flex:1">lb/bu </li></ul>56.1 57.9 57.5 59.0 59.0 55.0 53.8 60.0 55.0 55.5 58.5 56.0 56.5 59.0 59.6 57.2 bu/acb 10.0 12.5 36.3 24.2 30.8 32.0 43.3 36.3 19.8 22.6 39.9 33.1 33.0 56.6 34.1 31.0 A,B lb/bu 55.2 59.0 56.6 59.5 59.0 56.0 54.1 60.0 55.0 58.5 58.5 57.0 57.0 60.0 60.3 57.7 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">bu/acb </li><li style="flex:1">lb/bu </li></ul>57.9 58.6 56.6 62.0 59.0 55.5 55.4 61.5 56.0 56.9 60.5 56.5 58.0 60.0 61.5 58.4 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">bu/acb </li><li style="flex:1">lb/bu </li></ul>57.1 59.1 55.6 59.0 58.0 56.0 55.8 62.0 56.0 58.2 61.0 58.0 57.0 60.0 61.2 58.3 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">bu/acb </li><li style="flex:1">lb/bu </li></ul>56.0 59.1 55.8 59.5 57.2 56.5 52.8 60.0 55.0 57.5 59.0 59.0 56.0 61.0 59.4 57.6 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">bu/acb </li><li style="flex:1">lb/bu </li></ul>54.6 58.2 55.4 58.0 58.0 53.5 52.4 60.0 55.0 55.3 59.0 57.0 56.0 60.0 59.1 56.8 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">bu/acb </li><li style="flex:1">lb/bu </li></ul>56.2 58.7 56.3 59.5 58.4 55.4 54.1 60.6 55.3 57.0 59.4 57.3 56.8 60.0 60.2 57.7 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Baca/Vilas </li><li style="flex:1">8.2 </li><li style="flex:1">6.5 </li><li style="flex:1">5.2 </li><li style="flex:1">5.7 </li><li style="flex:1">6.3 </li></ul>7.0 Kit Carson/Burlington Lincoln/Arriba 15.0 32.8 25.6 30.1 34.8 48.0 39.0 16.7 21.3 48.8 37.7 26.8 49.8 37.8 31.5 A 16.5 34.8 24.2 19.6 35.3 46.7 40.5 18.1 22.0 42.5 35.3 24.9 48.4 37.0 30.1 B,C 14.2 37.0 26.9 37.8 31.5 44.5 34.8 17.0 21.7 41.7 27.9 25.3 52.2 33.7 30.1 B,C 11.5 31.6 23.4 36.3 33.8 43.5 30.5 15.6 20.4 40.2 34.7 26.2 49.4 32.8 29.0 C 11.4 28.4 21.1 29.6 27.2 36.3 37.8 15.5 19.8 34.8 25.2 26.7 41.0 27.8 25.9 D13.5 33.5 24.2 30.7 32.4 43.7 36.5 17.1 21.3 41.3 32.3 27.1 49.6 33.9 29.6 Logan/Leroy Logan/Peetz Logan/Sterling W Phillips/Haxtun Washington/Akron S Washington/Akron W Washington/Central Washington/Otis Weld/Keenesburg Weld/New Raymer Weld/Roggen Yuma/Yuma Average yield/Test Wt Significancec LSD(P<0.30) for yield = 1.2 bu/acre, LSD(P<0.30) for test weight = 0.3 lb/bu. aVarieties are ranked from left to right by highest average yield. bYield corrected to 12 percent moisture. cSignificance: Varieties with different letters are have yields that are significantly different from one another. The objective of the 2013 COFT was to compare performance and adaptability of popular and newly released CSU varieties (Byrd, Brawl CL Plus, Denali, and Antero) with a proven high-yielding variety (Hatcher), and with a variety with a grower price-premium (Snowmass) under unbiased, field-scale testing conditions. The COFT program is in its 15th year and the majority of Colorado’s 2013 wheat acreage was planted to winter wheat varieties that have been tested in the COFT program. In the fall of 2012, thirtythree eastern Colorado wheat producers planted on-farm tests in Baca, Bent, Prowers, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Washington, Yuma, Phillips, Sedgwick, Lincoln, Logan, Adams, and Weld counties. Each collaborator planted the six varieties in side-by-side strips (approximately one acre per variety) at the same seeding rate as they seeded their own wheat. Fifteen viable harvest results were obtained from the thirty-three tests due to the extremely dry conditions farmers experienced during the growing season. The COFT results need to be interpreted based on all tests within a year and not on the basis of a single variety comparison on a single farm in one year. 2013 Field Days Yield Contest Winners Announced <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">The </li><li style="flex:1">2013 </li><li style="flex:1">Colorado </li></ul>Wheat Field Days featured the Third Annual Yield Contest. Attendees chose the variety they thought would yield highest at that plot location. The person predicting the top variety, or the variety closest to the top, won a $25 Visa gift card. The tie breaker was the yield, so the winner was the participant who guessed closest to the actual yield. Darrell Hanavan Dan Maltby is filling in for Darrell Hanavan for this issue, and his guest column appears on page 6. At Burlington, the highest yielder was WestBred’s variety Winterhawk at 14.1 bushels per acre. The next highest variety that anyone picked was TAM 112, which was picked by two people. Dale Conrardy of Stratton was the only one to put down a yield, so he was the winner. Colorado Wheat 2013 Colorado Wheat Field Days at Wickstrom Farms near Orchard, June 2013. Farmer which eight people picked. The closest yield estimate was Ted Carter of Julesburg, who estimated it would yield 47 bushels to the acre. At .3 bushel away from the actual yield, he had the closest guess of all of the trial locations. 40.3 bushels per acre. Justin Wagers of Woodrow and Kurt Heupel of Weldona tied for the honors at this location as both guessed Byrd would yield 42 bushels to the acre. The best variety at the Haxtun irrigated trial was PlainsGold variety Denali, which no one selected. It yielded 134.8 bushels per acre. The highest yielding variety that anyone chose was CSU experimental variety CO07W722-F5 at 123 bushels per acre, which was selected by Steve Millage of Holyoke, who estimated it would yield 134 bushels. The Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee is organized under the Colorado Wheat Marketing Order approved by a referendum of Colorado wheat producers in 1958. The top variety at Roggen was PlainsGold varietyAntero, at 39.5 bushels per acre. While 18 people chose Antero, Lyle Cooksey, Roggen, had the best guess at 42 bushels per acre. At Yuma, the best yielding variety was Limagrain Cereal Seeds’ T163, which no one guessed, at 28.2 bushels per acre. The highest yielding variety that anyone chose was PlainsGold variety Brawl CL Plus, which was selected by Steve Andrews of Yuma. His estimate was 42 bushels per acre, and it yielded 27.6 bushels per acre. This is the second win in a row for him. The top yielder at Orchard WHEAT ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Darrell Hanavan.........................................................Executive Director Glenda Mostek....................................Communications/Marketing Director Anne Seavey............................................................Office Manager Joe Westhoff.................................................................Field Representative The top yielding variety SPEAKERS AVAILABLE The Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee members and staff are available for speaking engagements. If you need a speaker on markets or Committee programs or activities, please contact our office by phone (970) 449-6994, orwritetheCommittee.Thereisnochargefortheseengagements. at the Akron plot was PlainsGold’s Byrd at 24.3 bushels per acre, which was selected as the winner by 26 people. The closest yield estimate was from Gary Barkey ofAkron, who guessed that Byrd would yield 25 bushels per acre. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steve Beedy, District #6, Genoa, CO ............................................... President Randy Wilks, District #3, Burlington, CO.................................. Vice President Dave Anderson, District #1, Haxtun, CO..........................Secretary/Treasurer Sara Olsen, District #2, Yuma, CO...........................................Past President Dale Ness, District #5, Byers, CO .......................................................Director Brad Warren, District #4, Keenesburg, CO .........................................Director Shelby Britten, District #7, Haswell, CO..............................................Director Brett Shelton, District #8, Lamar, CO ..................................................Director Mike Williams, District #9, Hayden, CO...............................................Director <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Complete </li><li style="flex:1">results </li><li style="flex:1">of </li></ul>the 2013 Colorado State University wheat trials are <a href="/goto?url=http://plainsgold" target="_blank">available at: http://plainsgold. </a>com/wheat-genetics-testing/. At the Julesburg plot location, the best yielding variety was PlainsGold variety Denali at 47.3 bushels per acre, <a href="/goto?url=http://www.coloradowheat.org" target="_blank">www.coloradowheat.org </a>was PlainsGold’s Byrd, at COLORADO WHEAT FARMER SUMMER 2013 3 2013 Eastern Colorado Winter Wheat Variety Performance Trials By Jerry Johnson and Scott Haley Summary of 2013, 2-Yr, and 3-Yr Average Yield and Test Weight for Colorado Dryland Variety Trialsc <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2013 Averagea </li><li style="flex:1">2-Yr Averagea </li></ul>2012-13 3-Yr Averagea 2011-13 Yield The Colorado State University (CSU) Crops Testing and Wheat Breeding and Genetics programs provide current, reliable, and unbiased wheat variety information as quickly as possible to Colorado producers for making better variety decisions. CSU has an excellent research faculty and staff, a focused breeding program, graduate and undergraduate students, and dedicated agricultural extension specialists. Wheat improvement in Colorado would not be possible without the support and cooperation of the entire Colorado wheat industry. Ongoing and strong producer support for our programs is critical for sustained public variety development and testing. Our wheat variety performance 2013 Yield bu/ac 2013 Test Weight lb/bu <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2012-13 </li><li style="flex:1">2011-13 </li></ul>Test Weight lb/bu Yield Test Weight <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">bu/acc </li><li style="flex:1">Brand/Source Variety </li><li style="flex:1">Variety </li><li style="flex:1">lb/bu </li><li style="flex:1">Variety </li><li style="flex:1">bu/ac </li></ul>PlainsGold PlainsGold Limagrain PlainsGold Anterob Byrd LCS Mint Brawl CL Plus 27.5 27.1 26.7 26.0 26.0 25.8 25.7 25.4 25.3 25.3 25.1 25.0 25.0 25.0 24.9 24.8 24.7 24.7 24.5 24.4 24.2 24.1 24.1 24.0 24.0 23.8 23.7 23.3 23.3 23.0 22.7 22.5 22.3 22.1 22.1 22.1 21.8 21.2 20.5 19.4 24.1 56.3 55.3 57.9 56.2 54.6 56.6 54.7 56.6 55.8 57.3 54.7 56.9 55.6 54.4 55.0 56.7 56.9 54.5 56.8 57.3 54.8 54.8 55.7 55.3 56.1 57.0 55.7 55.7 55.0 55.8 56.4 56.0 53.2 54.3 56.0 54.6 53.4 54.6 53.9 56.2 55.6 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Byrd </li><li style="flex:1">42.8 </li></ul>42.7 40.8 40.1 40.0 39.6 39.5 38.9 38.8 38.6 38.4 38.4 38.4 38.3 38.2 38.1 38.0 37.8 37.6 37.5 37.5 37.0 36.9 36.7 35.9 35.8 35.4 35.3 34.7 38.2 58.9 59.6 58.4 59.5 59.8 57.9 60.1 59.0 59.4 58.6 60.0 60.1 58.2 58.4 59.1 59.8 59.5 59.6 59.2 58.9 60.5 59.1 57.0 60.4 58.9 56.4 58.2 58.9 58.2 59.0 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Byrd </li><li style="flex:1">46.4 </li></ul>46.0 42.9 42.6 42.2 41.8 41.6 41.5 41.3 41.2 41.1 41.1 41.0 40.7 39.9 39.0 38.7 38.2 41.5 59.0 59.6 59.7 58.0 59.8 58.6 59.6 58.2 59.1 59.3 59.9 59.4 59.2 59.2 58.9 58.3 56.7 58.2 58.9 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Anterob </li><li style="flex:1">Anterob </li></ul>CO07W722-F5b TAM 112 Brawl CL Plus Ripper TAM 112 Ripper Denali Settler CL Brawl CL Plus Above Hatcher Bill Brown Winterhawk SY Wolf CO05W111b T163 Robidoux Snowmassb Bond CL McGill Husker Genetics Settler CL KSU exp CSU exp Oklahoma Genetics KS09H19-2-3 CO07W722-F5b Iba CO08W218b T158 Watley Seed WestBred Monsanto TAM 112 Winterhawk WB-Grainfield Denali T154 Ripper TAM 113 Settler CL Denali Winterhawk Above CO08263 TAM 111 SY Wolf CO05W111b T163 Bill Brown Robidoux CO08346 Hatcher WestBred Monsanto PlainsGold Limagrain PlainsGold Limagrain CSU exp KWA PlainsGold CSU exp T158 CO08W218b Clara CLb Above CO05W111b CO08346 T153 CSU exp Limagrain PlainsGold AgriPro Syngenta trials and Collaborative On-Farm Test (COFT) represent the final stages of a wheat breeding program where promising and newly released experimental lines are tested under an increasingly broad range of Bill Brown <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">TAM 111 </li><li style="flex:1">Protection </li></ul>Clara CLb 1863 Bond CL McGill Husker Genetics Robidoux Limagrain AgriPro Syngenta Oklahoma Genetics T163 SY Wolf Gallagher TAM 113 LCH08-80 NI08708 1863 AGSECO Limagrain NE exp KWA PlainsGold PlainsGold NE05496 Snowmassb <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">environmental conditions. As </li><li style="flex:1">a</li></ul>consequence of large environmental variation, CSU annually conducts a large number of performance trials and on-farm tests. These trials serve to guide producer variety decisions and to assist our breeding program to more reliably select and advance the most promising lines toward release as new varieties. There were 40 entries in the dryland performance trials (UVPT) and 28 entries in the irrigated performance trials (IVPT). All trials included a combination of public and private varieties and experimental lines from Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Montana. All dryland and irrigated trials were planted in a randomized complete block design with three replicates. Plot sizes were approximately 175 ft2 (except the Fort Collins IVPT, which was 60 ft2) and all varieties were planted at 700,000 viable seeds per acre for dryland trials and 1.2 million viable seeds per acre for irrigated trials. Yields were corrected to 12 percent moisture. Test weight information was obtained from an air blower-cleaned sample of the first replication or from a combine equipped with a Harvest Master measuring system.

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