Once again, the popular tall, late-season ThunderTall Il triticale won an important irrigated hay-silage trial, this time in the Texas Panhandle in trials conducted by Texas A&M.  Jourdan Bell, TAMU agronomist, said the Ehmke Seed Co., ThunderTall II variety won the Bushland TX trials with a dry matter yield of 7330 pounds per acre when…

Wheat and More….or less By Vance Ehmke If you’re looking for seed wheat, rye or triticale to plant this fall, you might want to start looking sooner rather than later. One of the consequences of having the worst Kansas wheat crop in the past 50 to 60 years is that the supply of seed wheat…

By Mary Drewnoski for Hay and Forage Grower Over the past three years, we have been trying to identify if there is a decisive difference between using cereal rye, winter triticale, or winter wheat as a forage resource for beef cattle. Triticale is often held up as the best overall forage option. Indeed, when we evaluated…

Wheat & More…..or LessBy Vance Ehmke The Old West was officially closed in 1890. But it wasn’t until over 50 years later that the last of the wild horses disappeared from Lane County KS. Longtime resident Eldon Wancura, who now lives in Dighton, explains that he grew up on a farm and ranch that straddled…

By Vance Ehmke My great grandparents homesteaded here in western Kansas back in 1885. And I always thought it was a pretty big deal to be a fourth-generation farmer– until the bones of Lane County told me otherwise. Here on our farm we have a state historical site, 14 LA 311, to be exact. It’s…