Friday Crop Report! on Thursday!

[blackpowder]

Not sure when peas will try flowering but stil boottop tall. Early barley looking good but I suspect yield capped even IF rains. Going to flag next week. Wheat looks ok but can only sit still so long. Looking green only cuts it so long and they'll switch to seed production.
Canola, even the best is smaller than should be. Fields from road look fine to can't see it at all.
Still time to retrieve mediocre yields.
Spraying cereals now with some expensive but mostly cheapest depending on location. Liberty canola next week later.
Sales levels in all the people we support has gone to zero in area.

[cottonpicken]

Pretty sure canola stubble is toxic to flax with a twenty five or thirty percent yield reduction is what a rep told me

[furrowtickler]

Yes the is a toxin put out by canola roots that effects flax

[Guest]

thanks tweety, interesting . we knew of this problem but wanted to put a half section together . half on wheat stubble , half on canola stubble . we annhydrosed all of it last fall . put authority on wheat side none on canola side . we wondered if authority compounded the problem ? we also done a 50 ac test strip in middle of canola with granular jump start , no diff ? it's looking not to bad now after 2" rain .

[Guest]

furrow , you think it would help ?

[furrowtickler]

Actually not sure to be honest - it's not a fertility issue per say - but definitely won't hurt to try 40ac - you should see something within 5 days if it does help .

[greybeard]

They showed tests in the 70's that peas had a tremendous response to P but any more than 15# seed placed cut your yield in most conditions.
Good fertility is a 24 in solution.

[greybeard]

Keep those crop reports coming SF3!
You ain't never going to quit.
It's in your blood.

[tweety]

Those silly mycorrhizae are needed and flax is the most sensitive. If you can find the thesis of Christina Williams on rotation for her Masters, that's a good read. She did a lot of rotations that crossed each other like a grid.

Legume, wheat, flax, canola, oats or malt/feed barley, legume.... rotation is a good one i've found. Very few bugs/diseases/schlerotinia. Save a fortune on chemical. Makes for a good herbicide rotation too.

[Braveheart]

At the risk of sounding like the USDA, crop conditions here are improving. Annual ryegrass really picking up steam. There were a few seeding glitches in it this year. It had been cleaned and bagged in Washington and had straw bits that seemed to cause some bridging.

Barley is ready for fungicide (flag) and looks very good so far. Spring wheat also looking very good. Leaf diseases are at very, very low levels.

Canola looks from good to excellent. Fields that escaped the frost are really advancing. Flea beetles are not an issue anymore. Biggest pest is Richardson ground squirrels on a rented half. We are treating them with 36 grain hollow points, tank mixed with badgers and coyotes. It seems like an effective tank mix.

Soybeans just look great. Last check most were at V4 (I think).

Moisture is adequate, although a gentle rain would be welcome.