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Post by kevlar on Jul 2, 2024 8:49:54 GMT -6
A couple of observations I’ve noticed this year. Normally we work everything ahead of the drill (apply urea) and one benefit is it warms the soil up. This year it seems to be the opposite, likely because it’s never really warmed up. To speed things up we got urea broadcasted on and went right in seeding canola. The fields we did that are quite a bit ahead of the preworked fields. I’m guessing that the wind has been so hard on the canola that it’s setting it back? We used to do one pass seeding for a few years and year after year of poor crops went back to working ahead of the drill and it was day and night.
Wet soil does not warm up. I sowed a field of oats for my brother in law on some lighter sandier land and when I was checking the seed depth, the first thing I noticed was how much warmer the soil was than at home.
So on a cold wet year there is just absolutely nothing you can do to make things better.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 2, 2024 11:27:00 GMT -6
The black fields have been quicker here, unless it was blowing dirt. The thing that I find amazing is the soil is only a couple of degrees warmer than when we were seeding in the middle of May, no doubt because of all the cold rain.
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Post by garyfunk on Jul 5, 2024 5:11:17 GMT -6
What a change a week makes! Can almost see the canola grow. Bolting now and most should be full bloom in another week. Barley is pushing out the flag. Weather forecast is hot for the next 14 days. Maybe this crop will catch up to normal yet.🤔
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Post by meskie on Jul 5, 2024 7:42:09 GMT -6
No smoke around here this year has helped push the crop along I’m thinking. Our wheat is heading and all our canola is starting to bloom. Early barley is starting to push the head out also. Crops are behind the last couple years but 10 year average I think they are about the same.
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Post by hardrockacres on Jul 5, 2024 7:45:33 GMT -6
Canola just starting to bolt here, wheat heads not there yet, barley is jsut starting to push head. Expect another week to 10 days for wheat fungicide if needed, long range is showing hot - hopefully not with thundershowers every day.
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Post by SWMan on Jul 5, 2024 22:56:35 GMT -6
I talked to a guy that just finished visiting 70 colonies in SK, he said the crop is great everywhere. MB would be a different story I think.
Lots of low areas either done or on the ropes here, hopefully we can stay dry for awhile and salvage some of that.
I sprayed my peas today with fungicide and those fields were tiled, huge difference. I wish I had a lot more tile installed!
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Post by MBRfarms on Jul 6, 2024 9:33:54 GMT -6
Put our first tile in 2yrs ago, and that piece is absolutely our best by a large margin too. Went from pulling ruts with the sprayer a mile away on land with better surface drainage to clean tires end to end and even thick crop through the ditches. We'll see what the final $/Ac comparison is but after this year I'm pretty keen to get a bunch more in the ground
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Post by Oatking on Jul 6, 2024 10:50:41 GMT -6
Just wondered if guys are using drones to spray round up ? Not sure I am convinced drones are dummy proof yet just like the vax !
Also wondered how long does it take to spray a quarter with one drone .
Another question is … how big will they start making them ? I would imagine the fear would be if they crash , how much damage will they do to private property ? Right now they are pretty small .
How many gallons an acre can you apply fungicides ? I heard the spray pattern is not the same as a plane .
This morning was the first time I was able to get down a dirt road in over a week ! The roads are a mess and really soft !
Crop is in good shape so far .
I heard from a general Mills agronomist that leaf rust is in north western Minnesota and south eastern South Dakota .
They suggested it would arrive in the red river valley in ten days!
She suggested holding off on fungicide till Monday to protect the flag leave longer . Normally , crop growth would have meant spray last week .
If we get decent weather , I could easily see guys getting over 200 bpa oats in my area ! They have tillered more than I have ever seen before and are very lush .
I guess the oat price will take a beating this year !
I am glad to have soybeans.
I can tell the soybeans planted with a planter are showing less signs of compaction compared to a disc drill.
Both seeding machines had excellent emergence but it looks like the planter is showing its advantages after a wet planting season .
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Post by meskie on Jul 6, 2024 11:08:53 GMT -6
Our oats are as thick as they have been in a long time. Close to knee high and they are just at flag leaf. Gonna be some fuel burned to harvest them. Conditions are gonna need to be perfect to beat our high yield. Hopefully they make 150+. Grain cart guy (my 15 year old son) says he wants a bigger cart for them.
Hot weather isn’t going to do the canola any favours when it’s flowing this week. Up into the 30s is forecast for us.
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Post by Oatking on Jul 6, 2024 13:55:34 GMT -6
Our oats are as thick as they have been in a long time. Close to knee high and they are just at flag leaf. Gonna be some fuel burned to harvest them. Conditions are gonna need to be perfect to beat our high yield. Hopefully they make 150+. Grain cart guy (my 15 year old son) says he wants a bigger cart for them. Hot weather isn’t going to do the canola any favours when it’s flowing this week. Up into the 30s is forecast for us. Maybe you will be surprised ! Last year it was really hot and no rain during flowering and the canola still yielded awesome . I think the heat argument is over blown . Although , there is some serious heat down south ! Los Vegas will be hitting 48c . I heard Death Valley was in the high 50s c! 32c will feel like air conditioning compared to 48c I get it’s a dry heat ! |
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Post by SWMan on Jul 6, 2024 14:58:48 GMT -6
Oatking I have seen trials where Delaro beats other fungicides by 10+ bushels when rust is present, maybe you are already aware of that but Delaro is a very good fungicide.
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Post by meskie on Jul 6, 2024 15:15:38 GMT -6
Our oats are as thick as they have been in a long time. Close to knee high and they are just at flag leaf. Gonna be some fuel burned to harvest them. Conditions are gonna need to be perfect to beat our high yield. Hopefully they make 150+. Grain cart guy (my 15 year old son) says he wants a bigger cart for them. Hot weather isn’t going to do the canola any favours when it’s flowing this week. Up into the 30s is forecast for us. Maybe you will be surprised ! Last year it was really hot and no rain during flowering and the canola still yielded awesome . I think the heat argument is over blown . Although , there is some serious heat down south ! Los Vegas will be hitting 48c . I heard Death Valley was in the high 50s c! 32c will feel like air conditioning compared to 48c I get it’s a dry heat ! Last year was warm for us but also didn’t have direct sun from the smoke that made the difference. Got good moisture this year so hopefully the flowers stay on for a couple weeks. |
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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 6, 2024 15:24:18 GMT -6
The rains this spring varied a lot here in the peace this year so some have gotten far better and more recent moisture then we have right here and this heat is also forecast for here as in highs of 33 which is on average way above our typical high temps. So moisture prior to heat like this and if there is winds that come with it all will play in the outcome of what the crop does. What I have seen canola wise now around is all into full bloom mode and some was starting to bloom in the last week of June.
Speaking of Death Valley and I have mentioned this in the past, when I drove through there years ago just past the middle of July and was 48c ( 118 f ) , they said at the park office that this temp was right on for a recorded average for that time of the year. They also mentioned that they had 3 days if not 4 that year prior to my being there from spring until then where it had hit 129 f ( 53.9 c ) which they said was more than they normally see and had hit 129 just days before I got there .... darn, I missed that LOL. As far as the recorded high period, I could be wrong but see a listing where they start the temperature recording in 1911 so it was since then that they hit the 134 f or slightly over that as an all time high but who is to know what the high has been through all time and that includes in Canada as an example as after all we used to be a tropical jungle. It was the wind along with that insane heat ( well for me anyway at 48c ) that just made it far worse yet as any wind above body temperature is like a blast furnace. I didn't happen to see any street bikes the day I was there, that would be something to be riding a motorcycle in that type of temp but am sure people do it as so much of the south west USA sees a lot of heat and a reason why irrigation is sucking huge quantities of water to allow crops to grow in such conditions. As they say though in the south west, its a dry heat and the humidity is insanely low during the summer time in the Mojave desert. That morning I went through Laughlin which is south of Vegas right near the southern tip of Nevada and again someone said to me that its a good thing I was not there last week as they hit 117 and would have been when Death Valley had seen 129. Its just a fricken hot part of the USA during the summer.
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Post by kevlar on Jul 6, 2024 15:44:43 GMT -6
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Post by SWMan on Jul 6, 2024 20:19:08 GMT -6
Hopefully you are done for awhile kevlar, next week looks better. We actually had a dry week for the most part and the crops are coming back somewhat, yellow patches in the canola are shrinking every day now. Today we had 1-2 tenths of an inch in some pop up showers, so not a major setback. We could go weeks without rain and it wouldn't hurt my feelings at this point. I think if you had a week of sunshine things would be way different, we aren't getting back to full crop potential but we still have a crop.
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