Winter Grain in South Dakota

• Main Authors: Hume, A.N., Champlin, Manley, Morrison, J.D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange 1915
• Subjects: grains; winter crops; winter wheat; Ripen; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins/161; https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/context/agexperimentsta_bulletins/article/1160/viewcontent/AES_B_161.pdf

Winter grain, both wheat and rye, have certain apparent advantages over spring grain. These are as follows: 1. They permit division of labor both seeding and harvest. 2. They ripen early and frequently evade drough [sic] hail storms and plant diseases. 3. Under favorable conditions the winter grain...