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Post by Oatking on Jul 28, 2022 8:49:30 GMT -6
Lots of barley around this year. how is the feed price holding up and with all the cool wet weather in the valley I wonder what the vomi and fuz levels will be. That is why i quit growing the crop. Seed ex and the local feed mills dont really work with you if you have quality problems. I like growing the crop but the money is not great compared to oats. any body hit there barley twice with fungicides.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 28, 2022 11:39:13 GMT -6
Great pics of the test pass SW man.. How much shorter do you think it is ? You use Manipulator? This stuff was Moddus, sprayed at the end of the window allowed by the label(I think growth stage in high 30's). Ideally it would have been on sooner but was not able to. Still a good 4" shorter and maybe more when fully elongated. I've seen a 10 bushel increase a few times now too, plus the ease of harvest. I also did some Manipulator this year, no checkstrip there but wheat is mainly standing. Both are good products, have heard of mixing 50/50 but have never tried.
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Post by snapper22 on Jul 28, 2022 16:28:56 GMT -6
Lots of barley around this year. how is the feed price holding up and with all the cool wet weather in the valley I wonder what the vomi and fuz levels will be. That is why i quit growing the crop. Seed ex and the local feed mills dont really work with you if you have quality problems. I like growing the crop but the money is not great compared to oats. any body hit there barley twice with fungicides. Not much barley than usual around my sphere. Talking with brokers and general sense not a lot planted. More oats around other than wheat and canola. Thinking my oats will get a birthday but I expected that.
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Post by Beerwiser on Jul 28, 2022 22:31:15 GMT -6
Someone care to send some rain this way? Cereals are starting to get a white tinge to them and canola is loosing flowers way too quick. Hopefully we get some significant rain this week.
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Post by kevlar on Jul 29, 2022 7:42:59 GMT -6
We still have lots of moisture you could have, just have to come pick it up, I don’t deliver. Has been almost a week since we got our last inch of rain. Guys trying to put up hay are having a tough go, ground is so wet and high humidity is making it very difficult for them. Our oats still haven’t headed out yet, lots of fields around here haven’t. Five weeks until our average first frost, full moon is September 10 so will likely be around that time. Last couple nights have been down to 9 degrees.
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Post by meskie on Jul 29, 2022 9:17:22 GMT -6
Our early canola is pretty much out of bloom now. Been going for over 3 weeks so not too bad. Cereals are all looking good with some bottom leaves starting to turn yellow. Our neighbours peas are looking really good. They are 4-5’ tall and full of pods. Hopefully have something ready to go in a month. Depends on weather. We have had a cool wet august where crops haven’t ripened at all.
Our grazing corn is the best we have had in a lot of years. Cows should have lots of feed this year.
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Post by Oatking on Jul 29, 2022 15:35:51 GMT -6
wow 5 foot tall peas. hOLY, could you submit a photo meskie. What variety of peas. That is pretty good! I think the peas in the valley look like 3 feet tall at best and some only 2 feet or less and flowering. We are at least 5 weeks till canola swathing. I will cut the oats down too. I think the crop is worth too much now to wait and till its dead ripe. On average the swather buys a week or more. Most years that dont mean much but some years it might. I am Really looking forward to hitting the fields this fall. Its not perfect but its one of those years where a guy feels like he hit an inside the park home run even those the original hit was piss poor! Sometimes you have a little luck and sometimes you dont!
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Post by meskie on Jul 29, 2022 16:16:37 GMT -6
No idea the variety. I will get a picture next time I’m by them.
Should be an interesting time for the truck and grain carts this fall around here by the looks of things now….. but it’s a long ways from in the bin.
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Post by iamwill on Jul 29, 2022 21:14:49 GMT -6
We grew Meadow peas about 10 years ago that I had to jump to look over. This was on irrigated land and by the time they were ready to harvest they were a mat about 4 inches to a foot thick. I don't wish that on anyone. If I remember correctly they yielded in the low 50's.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 29, 2022 22:42:46 GMT -6
We grew Meadow peas about 10 years ago that I had to jump to look over. This was on irrigated land and by the time they were ready to harvest they were a mat about 4 inches to a foot thick. I don't wish that on anyone. If I remember correctly they yielded in the low 50's. I had the exact same experience with Meadows, went from 5' to pretty much flat. By the time we got to the end of the 360 acre field it was one way cutting, just kept getting flatter every day! Then started growing Carver and now Chrome, much easier to harvest for sure and the yield is better. I was spraying my peas today and had a rabbit trying to run away, once he left the track he was stuck...lol This from a couple years back, wouldn't want them any higher for the sprayer...
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Post by Oatking on Jul 30, 2022 8:07:17 GMT -6
Interesting the difference in carver vs chrome peas. Two fields of each variety show quite a difference in height. I would say the carver is at least 8 inch taller than chrome. Both fields seeded same time. Carver looks better now but I guess the important factor is the amount of lodging.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 30, 2022 9:47:25 GMT -6
I've had both Chrome and Carver in same year. The Carver is gonna be taller and possibly easier to cut, but Chrome is likely the better yielder.
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Jul 31, 2022 8:28:44 GMT -6
Does anyone here use a rotary rake for hay? We are considering one, they look like a good way of hay handling?
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Post by iamwill on Aug 2, 2022 19:32:37 GMT -6
We have an old Deutz single rotor rake, it works good IF it stays together long enough to get something done. They are not built to bounce through pivot tracks or gopher holes or wash outs. Nice smooth hay fields yes, cowboy "hay fields" get a wheel rake and just giver. My experience anyway but I am sure new rotary rakes are better than 35 year old clapped out ones.
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Aug 3, 2022 7:52:43 GMT -6
I think I would like an inverter, but they are hard to come by, and expensive, but the rakes are looking like a good option, still expensive, but it was a salesman I was talking to so one must take that into account!
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