Farmers Gather to Discuss Wheat Management, This year’s Crop

BUNCETON, Mo. — A light breeze drifted across a waving wheat field on David Brumback’s Cooper County farm. Wheat growers, University of Missouri Extension personnel and seed dealers had gathered for their 12th annual wheat field day.

Mel Gerber, a Morgan County farmer who helped organize the field day, says some wheat in the state has great potential this year.

“We just looked at some great-looking wheat following corn,” he says. “I expect the wheat that survived the winter — and not all of it did — but the wheat that survived the winter, we may have a bin buster on those acres.”

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