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S&WIowegan
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Are you wanting to smoke it? It is barley or rye which isn't grown much by modern farmers unless they have a contract with a buyer. Buyers need the grain for beer and whiskey.
Ole Joe Clark
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Might be wheat. They usually harvest it in early June in Dixie.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
Have a blessed day,
Leon
Oats. . . .
6518 John is right. Those are oats!
Wheat, rye, and barley look pretty darn similar when on the stalk, but...nope...them is oats!!
Too bad Wilford Brimley isn't a regular contributor on this forum or he'd agree with me.
Wheat, rye, and barley look pretty darn similar when on the stalk, but...nope...them is oats!!
Too bad Wilford Brimley isn't a regular contributor on this forum or he'd agree with me.
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TripLeader
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I'm no farmer, but it's not wheat.
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Definitely oats. Wheat, rye, and barley have tight seedheads. Oats do not.
6518 John is right. Those are oats!
Wheat, rye, and barley look pretty darn similar when on the stalk, but...nope...them is oats!!
Too bad Wilford Brimley isn't a regular contributor on this forum or he'd agree with me.
I have combined enough acreage of oats to make up one of the New England states although it has been 30 years. I can feel the rocking and bouncing of the combine sitting right now in my easy chair. Can smell the dust too!
My dad was a genius though, there is no better motivator to encourage a young man in his studies than running an open cabbed combine 14-16 hours a day.
ancient-one
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I think that being in a grain storage area with a scoop spreading oats as they come in might be at least as nasty as running the combine.
Ancient-one, you've got that right....That chaff, on a hot sweaty kid.
Good thing we had a horse trough outside so we could cool off and wash away the chaff...Then bale the straw...
WuzzFuzz
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Ah, yes; oat harvest. Dusty, itchy, dusty, more itchy -itchy, itchy, itchy. Wouldn't have missed it for anything, though!
Andy
P.S. A-37 If that picture was just taken, I think those oats are a bit late -you're on nearly the same latitude as I am, and they should be ripening about now. Not that it matters at all.
Andy
P.S. A-37 If that picture was just taken, I think those oats are a bit late -you're on nearly the same latitude as I am, and they should be ripening about now. Not that it matters at all.
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Ah, yes; oat harvest. Dusty, itchy, dusty, more itchy -itchy, itchy, itchy. Wouldn't have missed it for anything, though!
Andy
Another farm boy who knows about the real world of farming.
That's why we headed to the horse trough after scooping in the bin.
WuzzFuzz
Abbynormal
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I ain't gonna fall for it! I'm over 21 (by many times!)
gregintenn
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Is that Wilford Brimley? I thought it was Barbara Bush.6518 John is right. Those are oats!
Wheat, rye, and barley look pretty darn similar when on the stalk, but...nope...them is oats!!
Too bad Wilford Brimley isn't a regular contributor on this forum or he'd agree with me.
Whitwabit
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The only oats grown around here are people who have horses .. there's one barn where he breeds horses and think he has 3 fields of oats and other grains used to feed horses ..
he probably has 20-25 resident mares .. and others during breeding and foaling times ..
most are land trac's of 50 to 100 acres ..
he probably has 20-25 resident mares .. and others during breeding and foaling times ..
most are land trac's of 50 to 100 acres ..
mr-mom
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I would agree that picture looks like oats. The crop does look similar to rye & barley when growing. We have many similar-looking crops around us here. I do know our local crops are rye, already negotiated for by brewers and distillers.
Dave
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Dave
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It's oats. They generally have a blueish tint when a field-full is viewed compared to other small grains. No question the close-up of the head is oats. For what it's worth I'm a professional agronomist. Funny stuff here!
OP
I could've just asked the farmer but it's more fun posting the question here.......
Texas Star
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Ha, ha! But it's actually Wm. Penn, I think. ??
Why was he on an oatmeal box?
Maybe it's just a stylized Quaker. Sort of like Betty Crocker, who wasn't a real woman. Nor, probably, was Aunt Jemima.
But my aunt and uncle had a maid who looked just like Aunt Jemima. That amazed me as a young boy.
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S&WIowegan
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Now I'm embarrassed! I was born and raised on a farm in northern Illinois and we grew an oat crop every year. The oats were fed to our livestock. We ground it with our corn and fed it as a supplement to hay and ensilage. I spent many an hour walking in the oat field cutting the thistles. In spite of my immersion in oat fields I couldn't recognize them.
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vigil617
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Next thing you'll be telling us is there's no Little Debbie. That's where I'll draw the line!
All I can add to this discussion is that having recently taken a train trip on the Empire Builder from Chicago to Glacier National Park and back, I was amazed by the magnitude of agriculture in Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois that we could see from the window of our sleeper.
I'd never had a chance to visit the northern tier, and though I knew America's breadbasket was out there, I still was dumbfounded by the sight of fields stretching to the horizon. It was beautiful, awe-inspiring, and thought-provoking. All that land....all that hard work....all those American dreams.....
....amber waves of grain....
God bless all y'all who've had a part in it.
Next thing you'll be telling us is there's no Little Debbie. That's where I'll draw the line!
All I can add to this discussion is that having recently taken a train trip on the Empire Builder from Chicago to Glacier National Park and back, I was amazed by the magnitude of agriculture in Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois that we could see from the window of our sleeper.
I'd never had a chance to visit the northern tier, and though I knew America's breadbasket was out there, I still was dumbfounded by the sight of fields stretching to the horizon. It was beautiful, awe-inspiring, and thought-provoking. All that land....all that hard work....all those American dreams.....
....amber waves of grain....
God bless all y'all who've had a part in it.
Great that you got to see it. We used to Pheasant hunt every year around Mitchell SD. When they had bin buster years there was corn piled high everywhere they could dump it. It really makes you realize just how fertile and productive those states are. I am in Ohio and we don't see many Oats, but there are corn and soybean fields as far as you can see.
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