Blair's crop tour day tomorrow!

[SASKFARMER3]

Blair's is one family company I like. Actually
attended the UofS with a few of them. This will be
my first visit to one of their crop tours. It's
Wednesday in watrous. Like all crop tours what
works in one area might not in another. Growth
regulators for eastern would be a good thing.
Their used in Europe and are sprayed on hrs just
before heading thus concentrating all growth on
head and not creating straw like we do in eastern
Sask..
Fun time to have a few pops and check out some
advances in agriculture.
Yesterday did a drive up to field of dreams area
and then on to swan river Manitoba. Hrs is early
and nice very nice canola is very nice. Only
problem is excess rain is causing areas of the
fields to die and drown out. I see this happening in
a lot of the area I have driven. Crops were seeded
and established but can't sit in water.

[gustgd]

Spent the day today at the #SPARC tour in Swift
Current. Very good agronomy tour with modules
on soil fertility, disease in crops insect/weed ID,
rhizobia in pulses and a few other things.

Best part was all independent. No one tried to sell
me anything second best was all the young
women involved in AG now. 15 years ago it was
all teachers and nurses if someone was looking
for a wife. Now you kids have agronomists and
marketers. IMO Much more important to the
success of the family farm.

[gustgd]

http://www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/adx/aspx/adxGet
Media.aspx?
DocID=17952,2010,1,Documents&MediaID=1388
4&Filename=Crops Diagnostic School Poster -
2 pager FINAL.pdf


Check the link its on tomorrow as well as well as
Indian head at the end of the month.

It's worth the time

[furrowtickler]

Agreed with all, i think too many indepentandts folded the tents, pardon my spelling. Just after full moon Grr, lost my grammer as well...

[Hopalong]

Indian Head IHARF field day was also
yesterday.Must not forget the tribute to Guy
Lafonde and all he did to promote research at the
farmer level.

[SASKFARMER3]

Indian heads I always try to get to. Yes I also agree with you that farmers need real research not company propaganda. Funny thing yesterday when I was out crop checking got stopped by my local Cargill rep. Guess what their saying now. Maybe spraying so much fungicides in our area wasn't warranted this year because of the low pressure of disease and midge also since very few were present. But farmers could sleep better knowing they had protection just in case the disease did show up. That's $200,000.00 so I could sleep better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ado089]

I remember back in the day farmers made
their own decisions. I really don't
understand why people spend thousands on
agronomists who are just going to tell
you to use the best and apply
everything. If anyone wants the list I
can post it for free and save a guy
$9/ac.

[boarderbloke]

SF3 or others, any of those trials addressing row width or distance between rows? 10", 12", 15" 18" ???

[Hopalong]

IHARF is doing considerable work on different row
spacing.

[Mufferaw]

Spraying fungicide and subsequently
delaying maturity in a late year to begin
with seems like a great idea. Cost you
on both ends.