Friday Crop Report! on Thursday!

[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.

[blackpowder]

.17" at 2550 fps is a truly relaxing treatment. Wish I could partake lately.

[Braveheart]

I had one once in a Savage. I loved it but found the wind moved that sub caliber too much. It did blow those varmints up nice though.

[fjlip]

Done spraying today, a perfect calm warm day. Most are done unless second pass RR. Crops okay,could be better and a lot worse so, okay. All seeds are emerging now, two crops in one, fun times at harvest. Any rain today out there? What's with the halo around the sun and sun dogs like winter?

[furrowtickler]

The halo is high altitude moisture , at times preceeding rain events - but this next one looks to be a bust again.

[Partners]

Crops look Good considering the lack of early rain and the cold temps..Done the 2nd pass on canola 7 days earlier than last yr..

[ianben]

Todays UK Canadian news

Canada has been experiencing problems of a different nature; drought. The rain that fell in the Canadian prairies last week did little to alleviate the dry conditions it is experiencing. With the 1 million acres that were replanted in Manitoba due to heavy frost on 30th May and now the dry conditions showing no sign of abating, Canadian canola is trading around 14 month highs