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Post by victory on Jun 30, 2022 21:08:21 GMT -6
Canola in full bloom now would make for an early canola harvest! Really hope you guys get some drying weather. Not fun farming from crop insurance.
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Post by kevlar on Jun 30, 2022 21:26:39 GMT -6
Quite a bit of canola in bloom around here, only it’s volunteer canola on fields that guys couldn’t get sprayed in time. I thought our crops were bad, but have drove around a bit the last few days locally, there isn’t one crop I would say is good, some look alright, and some you can’t tell if they have anything planted. Realistically I would say 75% of the crop around here has a snowball’s chance in hell of making it to maturity before a frost. Still just too cool most days, had to put my jacket on for a bit this afternoon when it clouded up. Some guys have made a terrible mess spraying. We’ve taken our time and go around the water and wait a day or two to dry a bit more. Maybe our crops aren’t much, but at least the field isn’t a mess.
Called crop insurance today to come look at our barley, not sure what they will say, but pretty sure what I’m going to do when it comes time to spray it. There is a couple acres here, maybe 3 over there, and nothing in between.
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Post by Beerwiser on Jun 30, 2022 21:34:33 GMT -6
This is just slightly below average canola crop here. Only a handful are better, some way worse ones that I didn't get a picture of. Quite a few canola crops bolting in certain areas of the fields, not sure why.
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Post by garyfunk on Jul 1, 2022 9:00:46 GMT -6
That's got to be volunteers with the same herbicide tolerance as what they planted.🤷♂️ Our hay crop is looking pretty amazing this year. Fertilized with the cheap stuff last year and I think there musta been some residual for this year. This is our oldest stand (probably going on 20 years).
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Post by victory on Jul 1, 2022 10:51:31 GMT -6
Did you have to take the wheels off the side by side for that picture? P-) Looks very nice there Gary!
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Post by kevlar on Jul 1, 2022 11:03:59 GMT -6
I think he’s actually stuck, just too embarrassed to admit it! lol
Looks like he might have taken that picture in my yard a couple weeks ago before I got it mowed.
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Post by snapper22 on Jul 2, 2022 1:57:21 GMT -6
Wheat is crotch high and in the boot. Canola ranges from cabbage to three leaf. Oats crotch high and another couple weeks from pannicle barley going yellow in low spots. Barley is looking kinda sick. Best doing plant is thistles. It is a real mess. Sprayed all canola with eclipse. Some of the hay is still 2 weeks growing before I cut. Some pasture I don’t have cows on yet I could hay a bale an acre off without cutting too low. Need heat before I hay but forecast for 2 weeks looks wet and cold. I’m kind of worried but canola is loving it.
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Jul 2, 2022 8:20:43 GMT -6
I sprayed Eclipse as well on the canola, it is the worst mess I have ever seen, mainly thistles, but a huge amount of foxtail barley as well, next pass will be a good shot of roundup weathermax. Yesterday was spraying wheat and saw the volunteer canola looks great, no bug damage at all, wheat is quite variable but it may make a crop if conditions allow. I think it will be hard to get hay baled in good condition this year.
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Post by snapper22 on Jul 2, 2022 9:51:19 GMT -6
I sprayed Eclipse as well on the canola, it is the worst mess I have ever seen, mainly thistles, but a huge amount of foxtail barley as well, next pass will be a good shot of roundup weathermax. Yesterday was spraying wheat and saw the volunteer canola looks great, no bug damage at all, wheat is quite variable but it may make a crop if conditions allow. I think it will be hard to get hay baled in good condition this year. Those with the means will be wrapping hay. Two week forecast no good for making hay. Lots like to be going by now but not uncommon for us to start middle of July. It rains everyday now and grass is getting thicker.
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Post by meskie on Jul 2, 2022 11:33:52 GMT -6
Be a few days yet before we think about cutting hay. Have to look to find blooms on alfalfa. Got 4-h this weekend and regional show and sale next weekend anyway so no big rush for us. We mostly chop barley silage and don’t do a lot of dry hay.
Canola is starting to bolt oats will be headed out soon wheat and early barley will be heading soon also. Crops are generally looking really good. Even our poor canola is starting to come around and looking ok. If we need to fungicide anything likely will call the plane in except for the wheat.
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Post by garyfunk on Jul 2, 2022 11:45:53 GMT -6
Patience will be the key with the hay this year. If we don't get nice haying weather that'll be the least of our worries ...
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Post by kevlar on Jul 2, 2022 14:01:23 GMT -6
Not much progress here, unless you call receding water progress? I’ve never seen crops this far behind in my life, and neither has dad, and he’s 74, and we’ve both seen quite a few frozen crops in the fall. A guy still tries to keep their hopes up but mostly now everything is just weed control and trying to figure out what to do with some fields, a few will at least make stubble so we’ll leave them. That’s one of our canola fields. July 2nd and it took until 4:00 to hit 20 degrees, then it clouded up. Consistently a good 5 degrees below normal every day.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 2, 2022 23:13:59 GMT -6
Later June seeded canola looks better than my May stuff, but that's not saying much. Just finished spraying wheat for weeds, normally would be done flag leaf fungicide by now. So although crop looks okay, it is way late. On the plus side it would appear by my check strip that seed has a very good ROI this year again! ;-|
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Post by Oatking on Jul 3, 2022 7:33:58 GMT -6
I decided to leave my low parts of my river lots unseeded. I seen a few guys seeded last week but figure if its not up and growing by now , what are you chances. Overall canola is covering the 10 inch rows in 4 leaf stage , and oats are now 3-4 leaf stage and tillering. We seem to be catching up with the non flooded folks. You can see the early seeded canola out of the flood zone is actually behind some flooded zone canola because of all the plant stresses it went thru earlier. Some of that canola is pre-maturely bolting which is never good. So nice to see blue skies this summer instead of a smoky filled country side from forest fires. Do you think that has a change in crop growth.
We need a good September and October.
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Post by kenmb on Jul 5, 2022 8:11:00 GMT -6
I was expecting us to be in heat waves by now as temperatures have always averaged out over a year but so far the cool 2022 calendar year continues and the week long forecast shows nothing over 27c with half the says cloudy and low 20s. Flax seeded June 5-6, mustard June 7-8, wheat May 26. Still have some mustard coming up, saw a seedling with 2 leaves and they were the size of a nickel so I would expect a plant starting out like that will catch up fast. Finished in crop spraying Sunday which was flax that is around 5" high and a nice carpet of young weeds. Mustard still weed free but did find a wild buckwheat plant while driving across the half section. Was concerned that the 1-2.5" of rain would weaken the Edge but so far all is well. Got a great burnoff for the flax and mustard doing it begining of June so once mustard bolts and canopies over all should be well for season long weed control. Barley looking fine so far. It got beat up pretty good by the hard rain the same day I sprayed it and the sprayer tracks are still easy to see and in some places the barley won't recover from the tire damage. Plant was already on the ground and got pounded in by the rain more. Got a great kill with burnoff using around 280g/ac glyphosate and 6.8 GPA water. Mixed some Aim or Express in too depending on crop for anticipated kochia problem. But for some reason smoked the grass good, even in road ditches the grass still not coming back. Don't know, guys talk of 1l or more per ac glyphosate for burnoff but I never see the need. Wheat on flax stubble got Simplicity at low rate with Barricade & Perimeter and the Simplicity didn't phase it at all. Can always bank on flax stubble germinating every weed known to my area come spring. Next to no weed pressure in barley.
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