HUSA Sep 30 2026 – Sarah Nicholson

I’m Brian Hale. An original production of Howard Hale Broadcasting now expanded throughout North America. Looks like our co-host David Woodruff has Sarah Nicholson on the phone again.

We’ll start sowing wheat. We have a row drill that we sow wheat into our cotton. So we interseed the wheat.

And so then once we get done stripping cotton, we’ll already have wheat pasture on a good year. But we try to not sow it until it rains. So that there’s moisture there to germinate that wheat.

So what spacings are your cotton rows? 36 or what are they at? 40s. They’re 40s. So then it’s not really too hard to get in there and plant winter wheat in alongside those.

We have a drill that my brother and his buddy custom built that sows in between the rows. Even when the cotton’s big, it goes in there and sows it in between. So it must be a high crop looking type of thing to keep up out of the way of the cotton.

Yeah, they have, it’s pretty specialized. They custom built it to do it. It’s really been a game changer for our operation for sure.

Because I mean, if you happen to get a rain by the time, because if not, what happens is a lot of times people will go back and they will sow wheat following the cotton, but they’re gonna have to wait until the cotton’s stripped. Well, we’ll go ahead and plant, we’ll go ahead and plant the wheat in between the cotton. On a good year, a couple of years ago, we were already sowing wheat.

And so we’ll come October, November, by the time the cotton’s stripped, we already have a really good stand. I mean, there’s been times where we stripped the cotton and a week later we’re turning out cattle on it. Sarah Nicholson from Dameron Farms with our co-host David Woodruff.

That’s gonna do it for today’s Harvest USA report. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.