Canola seeding date

[biglentil]

I consider myself green though ..
yes I just went around a goose nest in the middle of a field

Had one goose actively sitting in a nest on a lump of straw. Was going to move the whole deal over onto my previous pass, looked no eggs, thought it best she find a new place to lay em.

[Guest]

So what are you folks seeing for soil temps? Field we grew corn in last year and grazed over winter has a great litter cover on it really preserving moisture compared to the other fields. I measured it today and reckoned it to be 4.5C at 2" mid afternoon.

We also had a lot of alfalfa killed by frost last week.

frost will never kill alfalfa , just sets it back

[Casered]

I consider myself green though ..
yes I just went around a goose nest in the middle of a field

The only thing I'll drive around is burrowing owl dens. But I haven't seen any for a few years now.

[furrowtickler]

Soil temp back to 12 today .
Did drop to 5 in Friday ave , but really that’s the last thing to look at May 13 now

[WiltonRanch]

Started canola yesterday. Seeding a bit deeper than usual to hit moisture. In fact about 1 plate shallower on a Deere drill than barley and wheat about an inch. This is the earliest in I don’t know how many years we got rolling. Even so drill depth is variable enough if we got froze there’d be enough seeds left to sprout from the bowls of the earth. Seen that 10 years ago. Everyone with disc and paralink had near freeze outs. Guys running shovels, and older type drills didn’t. Wasn’t about black soil any more than seed depth.

[RedLentil]

Canola coming up here. Always the first thing in the ground started seeding canola April 28th

[farming101]

Volunteer canola coming up here. Striped flea beetles keeping it in chec

[Guest]

Volunteer canola coming up here. Striped flea beetles keeping it in chec

Theyre just thick here , several on every volunteer plant . Sprayer windshield covered with the little bastards

[quadtrac]

Just started seeding canola. Going to be very uneven germ if it doesn’t rain soon.

We’ve been way to wet for about 10 years and now it’s going the other way.

Grain buyers seem oblivious to how dry it’s getting.

Bins are locked here on old crop and no new crop pricing other than some canola we did awhile ago that starting to wish we hadn’t.