In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: 2 questions posted by K-stater on July 14, 2008 at 08:42:12:

I have harvested wheat down to 10 bu. per acre and it seems you get about the same loss in that as you do in wheat yielding more.

Yesterday I was in some 65 bu. wheat and it was very dry and getting about 1 bu./acre to 1 1/2 bu. loss at the head. A little more than usual. So if I had a 1bu. loss in 60 bu. wheat and a 1 bu. loss in 10 bu. wheat the loss is the same but the percentage of loss is higher in lower yielding wheat.

Wheat yielding 30 or more is easy to harvest...there is enough straw to work well. Less than that, it gets pretty thin but still doable. If the ground is smooth enough you can run 9 mph or so and still strip the heads.