Frost Damage

[BreadWinner]

How many have canola out of the ground? The forecast looks unbelievable cold for this time of year.

[Oliver88]

Stats Canada will increase yield projections with a strong frost.

[blackpowder]

Wheat and peas up.
Anyone have experience?
Supposed to be -3 tonight and -4 tomorrow night.
We always seed canola last.

[furrowtickler]

A fair amount of canola either up here , or in dry dirt , not much in between
A lot just came up the past few days .
All one can do is wait and see at least 3-5 days . Problem is it three nights not one .
We found the best way is to pin flag 10 plants or 10 plants in a row is a few areas of each field and just monitor for several days . We pin flagged several fields today . Canola can be tough but a dry frost with no moisture is a different beast.
Time will tell , a rain will help hopefully Monday/ Tuesday
If you just had moisture it will help a lot as well .
Just hope for the best right now

Plus 2 and dropping here

[Guest]

She’s the worst combo
Dryer than hell
32 yesterday
20% humidity
Lots will be buggered

[shtferbrains]

There are a lot of things that come into play when deciding to reseed canola.
Obvious #1 is are your frosted plants dead. You can freeze the cotyledons off but if the part that comes up from the root looks alive and white not brown and rotten you will get a true leaf start growing. After a day or two you can split that white stem open and see the green coming.
But if you have shit for moisture what are your choices.
Not to late to reseed but if it's black tomorrow but not dead you will see green rows a lot quicker if you wait it out.

[shtferbrains]

Slincard used to say peas could regrow from frost 3 times.

[makar]

The old timers as well as me have never seen a cereal lost to a spring frost.

[6V53]

Barley is more susceptible than canola. Canola that gets frosted in the spring is invincible in the fall. Flea Beatles in Kool weather with these shitty blue treatments is a bigger problem.

[furrowtickler]

That was at 10:48 pm just north of here
That’s Jackfish Lake on bottom left for reference.