One general thing noted over the past 10 days with frost damage and recovery or not is fert rates at seeding . Now before anyone gets pissy - we have covered 1000's and 1000's of acres since the Black Friday Friday frost.
The majority of canola in this area was seeded into good moisture but dried very quickly. Most of canola germinated good and root systems established very well partly due to dry weather- not a bad thing BUT ... Then it froze and if that canola was seeded close to a high concentration of fert ( within 1-2 in ) the canola was wiped out worse than fields with mid or low fertility . Fert burn has caused as much damage as frost in those cases.
Anouther is different varieties in the Same fields - some were wiped out some virtually unscathed . I have seen this before . Some varieties simply have bigger balls.
This is just something seen in this area - 40-50 mile radius - I suspect some will say they seen different from different areas.
Some of the canola here recovered very well even after pounding hail 36 hrs after frost . Some just had the fairly moderate frost in other areas and was wiped out . It did not take long to see the coralation between very high fertility rates and unusually high frost damage and or poor, slow recovery or just death.
Stripped Beatles also did far more damage than most thought - the stem feeding was devestaing to struggling plants . Chewed leaves are one thing but chewed stems are worse .
The majority of canola in this area was seeded into good moisture but dried very quickly. Most of canola germinated good and root systems established very well partly due to dry weather- not a bad thing BUT ... Then it froze and if that canola was seeded close to a high concentration of fert ( within 1-2 in ) the canola was wiped out worse than fields with mid or low fertility . Fert burn has caused as much damage as frost in those cases.
Anouther is different varieties in the Same fields - some were wiped out some virtually unscathed . I have seen this before . Some varieties simply have bigger balls.
This is just something seen in this area - 40-50 mile radius - I suspect some will say they seen different from different areas.
Some of the canola here recovered very well even after pounding hail 36 hrs after frost . Some just had the fairly moderate frost in other areas and was wiped out . It did not take long to see the coralation between very high fertility rates and unusually high frost damage and or poor, slow recovery or just death.
Stripped Beatles also did far more damage than most thought - the stem feeding was devestaing to struggling plants . Chewed leaves are one thing but chewed stems are worse .
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