Our Winter Wheat Field: Oct 24 three leaf

I had a dig around in the winter wheat field I'm monitoring .
You can see root development is pretty good. We use to want a rosette or crown to ensure the crop would survive the winter. Now two or three leaves will do. I have seen some small winter wheat survive. Plants that just germinated or one leaf poking out of the ground seem to overwinter. I don't know if that is the best way to do it, but they survived. I received most of my early lessons on winter wheat with Kestral, since then the varieties have changed a lot in growth habits ( or maybe we know more?)


These were taken Oct 24 the look to have 3 well developed leaves.