WASHINGTON—With wheat
exports and domestic prices down,
and acreage reductions in effect,
growers need to do everything they
can to boost profit margins. The
question is: “How do you boost
profits and yields beyond what
you’ve been getting on thaTland
for years and years?”
Harry Howaid, president of the
National Association of Wheat
Growers Foundation, who farms
1,000 acres of wheat and barley
near Warren, Minn., is looking to
increase his yields 10 to 20 percent
and also increase his net profit by
shooting for Maximum Economic
Yield (MEY), at least on 20 acres
he’s set aside for testing.
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“MEY requires adoption of an
Intensive Cereal Management
(ICM) program,” Howard says.
“Basically, it means careful,
thoughtful analysis of all inputs
and their relationships, and follow
ing a seven-step production and
management system.”
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variety selection, populations and
spacing: fertility; pest control;
moisture and irrigation, and a
plant-growth regulator - is the key
to its success, as well as some help
from Mother Nature.
“Most wheat producers use at
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Howard says. “They just haven’t
put them together in an intensive
management program before.”
Howard will participate in the
NAWG Foundation’s ‘Test 20’
program this year. He’ll set aside
20 acres of wheat ground and use
Intensive Cereal Management to
achieve MEY, the most high
quality wheat at the least cost.
Used across a whole farm, the
result should be improved overall
farm profit, he states.
Adopting a new crop
production system isn’t for the
lazy, says Howard. “It’s easier to
go along doing what you’ve been
doing,” he says. “That’s especially
true when you’re up against plant-
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ing time. MEY requires more man
agement and fine tuning of the
whole production operation. For
tunately, the NAWG Foundation’s
‘Test 20’ program gives a grower
the opportunity to learn the system
before he applies it to his total
operation.”
Growers who are interested in
trying for MEY can register for the
‘Test 20’ program through the
NAWG Foundation. To imple
ment the system on 20 acres, they
receive an MEY packet, contain
ing background information,
instruction manuals, guidelines
and rules.
“The NAWG Foundation wants
to enroll 2,000 wheat growers in
‘Test 20’ to build an MEY data
base that can be shared with parti
cipating growers and also used to
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further improve the system,” How
ard explains. “The grower will
receive an analysis of his own
operation, as well as state and
national summaries of ‘Test 20’
results.”
The ‘Test 20’ data allows wheat
producers all over the country,
who raise the five classes of wheat
in different soils, climates and con
ditions, to help themselves and
create regional guidelines.
The important thing now,
according to Howard, is for grow
ers to sign up in the ‘Test 20’ pro
gram. The deadline for fall-planted
wheat is November 1. “We need
those 2,000 growers in the pro
gram to make sure we have enough
test plots to build that data base,"
he says.