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 "My farm has wheat grown as a part of the crop rotation plan....corn, wheat, then plant beans after the wheat is harvested in June and have a short growing season. I noticed during all of this that the Illinois wheat prices were much lower than those quoted in Montana. Makes me wonder...could there be a conspiracy against Illinois farmers?" mp173 your southern illinois farm produces soft red winter wheat, a low protien wheat used in the production of cookies, crackers, cake, pretzels, while montana is a producer of hard red winter, hard red spring and some hard white wheat (bread wheats). the montana classes are higher in protien and in the pricing of the last several years have carried a premium to soft red (not always true). before calling your farm manager with instructions to switch be aware that soft red gets a higher yield than montana hard wheats due to illinois' higher rain falls....soft red is the proper choice for your farm. it fits the climate and the demand needs of local mills, and handling limitations of neighborhood elevators more closely than hard wheat would. this is the problem with this thread...none of us know enough about the other fellow's businesss to be telling him what to do.
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