Friday Crop Report!

[SASKFARMER3]

But this falls into their plan do SFA with varieties under old system farmer takes hit then with new seed rules bring one out that's been on the table and charge 80 a acre huge profit again for companies farmer screwed' the circle of life goes on!

[Klause]

Minimum till is way better for the soil then summer fallow.

Burning organic matter and killing worms is bad for the soil.

Native prairie grows every year.

[wmoebis]

Your right Klause. Do native prairie plants get diseases that hurt or kill people/livestock when eaten? After all these years of crop development where is the perennial wheat, resistant to all these diseases? Never going to happen.

How many crops were lost or even down graded 30 yrs ago to Fus, Midge or Even ergot? Ergot was controlled with perimeter tillage, crop rotation or early cutting and baling perimeters for control. They could have stopped Fus in the early 90's in the Red River Valley when it was first started but look how much money grain and chem companies would have lost.

[Klause]

Ergot is a symptom of cu deficiency.

We had trouble with it one year. Foliar feeding g cu has completely eliminated it as an issue

[ado089]

Klause, When, what rate and what product are you using for copper. I have pretty mixed results on plant safety especially when mixing with fungicide. The old formulation of folicure was the best because you could cut out the surfactant. Next year I might take it organic and skip the fungicide and apply more copper with more water at flag.

[Braveheart]

Be careful with the type of Copper used that late some types of copper can really hurt yield.

Ergot can only grow where there is no seed. It doesn't take over, only grows in a blank space.

Copper helps, but so does Boron.

[Braveheart]

Harvest has started here. We combined a field of annual ryegrass yesterday. It had been swathed a week. Finally got the moisture down to 15% and will air dry the rest. Yield seem good, although we are ryegrass virgins so don't really know. The straw baled nice and looks like it will be much better cattle feed than cereal straw. We'll test later.

Some wheat getting close to swathing. It looks good but we'll see when the combine rolls. Quality may be an issue.

I say quality may be an issue because the winter wheat in this area is a complete disaster. The norm seems to be 36% fusarium. Some yields are as low as 20 bus/ac. That said, sheeple around here are lining up to spend $13.50 per bus. for Emerson and $12.50 per bus for Flourish. Too much.

Our canola is maturing slowly, still looks good. We're about the only no tillers left in the area and it is paying off again. The people with the black fields have canola drying out noticeably. Some schlerotina showing up on canola fields that weren't treated or had aerial application.

Oh yeah, forecast sucks. Seems high pressure ridge has flattened allowing systems to track through. Don't need it. Don't want it.