WHEAT
We buy and sale wheat year around. Our main harvest is from May to June. We have the capacity to hold over 2 million bushels and have rail service to load unit trains to optomize customer pricing.
Winter wheat is most widely used for temporary pasture crop. It can be grazed without apparent injury to the grain crop, provided it is not grazed severely over an extended period of time, or too late in the spring. Pasturing should not begin in fall until plants have become firmly rooted. Harvesting the grain should be delayed until the wheat is sufficiently mature to store well, with moisture content of 14.0% or less under ordinary conditions. Wheat is harvested with a combine properly adjusted to minimize grain losses. Storage bins should be cleaned and treated before grain is placed in them. Seed storage to 3 years in dry storage bins.
SESAME
Sesame is one of the oldest crops known to humans. There are archeological remnants dating to 5,500 years ago in the Indian subcontinent. Sesame was a major oilseed in the ancient world because of its ease of extraction, its great stability, and its drought resistance.
Sesame is very drought tolerant and can withstand high heat, but as with all crops, sesame will have higher yields under irrigation. Sesame has proven to be an excellent catch crop for failed out crops, e.g. hail destruction of cotton or freeze or insect damage to wheat. By using sesame as a rotation crop, the soils are improved, and the sesame suppresses cotton root knot nematodes.
Sesame is a deer and hog resistant plant. For more information on sesame visit www.sesaco.net
MILO
Nearly all grain sorghum is harvested as a standing crop with a combine. Combining time will depend on the fall weather. Sorghum grain can be threshed free of the head when the seed Moisture is 20-25 percent.
Sorghum seed is easily damaged in the threshing operation, especially when the grain is dry. The combine platform should be operated as high as possible to minimize the mass of stems entering the combine. If necessary, the cylinder speed can be reduced to one-half that used for wheat to prevent cracking the seed. However, grain moisture will normally be higher and faster cylinder speeds can be used. The recommended cylinder speed is 750-1300 R.P.M. but loss determinations should be made to refine the combine adjustments. An average loss of 19-22 kernels per square foot is equal to one bushel per acre loss. |
