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Small Grains:

• Wheat, Oats, and Barley

News:

• 07-03-08
  Bacterial diseases continue to strike South Dakota wheat
  
  06-30-08
  Southeast Research Farm tour set for July 9
  
  06-27-08
  Aphid control important in flowering to soft-dough wheat
  
  06-19-08
  SDSU Brookings plant science farm tour set for June 30
  
  

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Contacts:

• Robert Hall
  Extension agronomist - Crops
  Box 2207A, Ag. Hall
  South Dakota State University
  Brookings, SD 57007
  Phone: 605-688-4760
  Fax: 605-688-4602
  
  

crop management »

Small Grain

Variety Selection

• Small grains and field peas: 2008 variety recommendations and 2007 yield performance results EC774-08 (posted: 10-23-07)

Planting/Replanting

General

• Chronological Listings of Crop Variety/Hybrid Releases Since 1907

Dates

• Historical & suggested crop planting dates
• Historical & suggested other row crop planting dates
• Average number of days remaining to first fall freeze
• Late-seeding options
• Historical & suggested dates for spring-seeded small grains
• Historical & suggested dates for fall-seeded small grains
• Yield loss estimates if seeded between April 15-29

Rates

• Population - 6 to 40" row spacing
• Rows spaced 6-12" apart
• Suggested rates - per foot-of-row & pounds per acre
• Seeding rates studies at the NE and Brookings Research Farms from 1997-98
• Seeding rates studies Northeast Research Farm and at Warner in 2003

Growth & Development

Barley

Oats

Wheat

General

• Chronological Listings of Crop Variety/Hybrid Releases Since 1907

Harvest & Storage