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Post by victory on May 27, 2022 11:59:56 GMT -6
We are very thankful for the good seeding conditions we had/have. Had to leave the odd small wet hole, but other than that seeding went well. First seeded canola just emerged a few days ago and the flea beetles seem to be short on food. Always something to keep a guy wondering how the year will go  |
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Post by OptimallyDismal on May 27, 2022 12:46:46 GMT -6
When on dog walkies the other day noticed flea beetles on my arm, hoping this late start puts me in between the population peaks?
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Post by garyfunk on May 27, 2022 13:14:57 GMT -6
Was loading the tank with seed and noticed one of them on the bag before I even opened it. Impatient little bugger!
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Post by meskie on May 27, 2022 13:19:52 GMT -6
Haven’t seen any around here yet. Hopefully seed treatment works better this year then last year. Was told it needs moisture for it to work. We have more this year then last.
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Post by northernfarmer on May 27, 2022 16:31:24 GMT -6
The canola was just put into the ground in the last week so certainly nothing of ours up, first wheat is popping up though. So about the flea beetles, I noticed two things lately, that volunteer canola looked like crap colour and health wise and also was being beaten up by the beetles, we had a frost that hit that canola is what I am assuming went on. Now if we could only train the little beetles to eat the volunteer canola and lick the seeded canola plant we would be ahead of the game.
I swear its blue candy they put on the canola seed these days, that and if its seeded early and have a cool spring and the plant is slow to progress and so time goes by and what little good the treatment could have done is time expired. Often I see later seeded canola look healthier around here as the days have warmed up by then and the beetle pressure is often less on those late seeded fields due to cycle timing of the beetles I assume.
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Post by shmiffy on May 27, 2022 23:20:04 GMT -6
Spraying in canola stubble there are lots of flea beetles on the windshield and hood. Any flixweed is crawling with them
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Post by Beerwiser on May 28, 2022 9:16:28 GMT -6
Nothing showing here on the volunteer canola, but the candy coated seed is not out of the ground yet.
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Post by SWMan on Jun 10, 2022 22:41:41 GMT -6
I put one field of canola in early(May 28) and it has a few beetles on it now, lots of spraying and reseeding going on within an hour of here on certain fields. One guy I talked to today said some of the canola that has Vercoras instead of Prosper is maybe not as good for vigor and some weird plant symptoms that BASF is blaming on frost or whatever else. Of course all Lumiderm treated seed this year had Vercoras. Might be something to watch for, I have some leftover Lumiderm/Prosper that I might throw in a trial against this Lumiderm/Vercoras if I get back in the field.
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Post by victory on Jun 10, 2022 23:04:26 GMT -6
In our fields the 7542 canola that was treated with Buteo had hardly any flea beetle damage. Sprayed a couple of fields of 6076 that was treated with fortenza.
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Post by meskie on Jun 11, 2022 6:09:30 GMT -6
Flea beetles decided to wake up last week. Sprayed all of our invigour canola around home. We have some pioneer beside invigour that we didn’t have to spray. Even had to spray the one 1/4 that had lumiderm on it.
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Post by kevlar on Jun 11, 2022 7:16:44 GMT -6
I think some varieties naturally deter flea beetles. We almost never spray for them, and have never sprayed Pioneer varieties, even when they have been side by side with other varieties that got hit hard by them, the Pioneer hardly even had any bite marks. Not sure what the reason is, but that plays a role in our canola selection. We have some Brett Young this year as well, see if my theory holds true again.
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Post by meskie on Jun 11, 2022 8:11:21 GMT -6
We have pretty much grown invigor canola for years. Last year was the first time we had to spray for flea beetles.
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Post by carlos on Jun 11, 2022 8:42:25 GMT -6
Had to spray my invigor but not my RR Brett Young.
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Post by cropgrower on Jun 11, 2022 9:16:29 GMT -6
just sprayed 600 acres , terrible bug damage this year , one field had buto on and is no better than the lumiderm treated field , rep is on his way out now too look at field
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Post by kevlar on Jun 11, 2022 9:17:37 GMT -6
Maybe flea beetles of different regions have different tastes? 🤷♂️
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