Friday Crop Report on a Thursday. First week of July.

[Grain Farmer]

Nope, not interested in anything.
early bly burning up.white spots..
3 inches not enough to grow much of a crop..

[seldomseen]

There are farmers around me spraying most of their crops with fungicide. Their crops look like mine, short thin and uneven and struggling with drought.
Ask what they are spraying for and they aren’t even sure.
Just want to spend money I guess.

[sumdumguy]

Lentils and peas?

[fjlip]

My master plan is to go to my grave without a single fungicide acre under my belt.

Same here, never have and won't....saved $1000's so far...

[fjlip]

Still hope for an unforcasted thunderstorm to boil up and do more good than harm.

That's been normal for us forever, rain when unforcasted or NOT on radar, hoping its a repeat! During flood years, we cried!

[seldomseen]

Lentils and peas?

No lentils up this way.
Most peas got sprayed but also lots of canola and wheat and barley.
One thing most of these farms that are spraying is that they use a crop consulting company.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

How many of these farms that are spending money on a crop does not worthwhile fit into the corporate category with layers of management? Such as we were discussing in another thread a while back.

I know what former farmer who used to be a manager at one of these size of farms. He would scout the crops and make a judgment on what needed to be done. Upper management would tell him that it didn't matter because they had already pre-purchased everything months before and it would get done regardless.

[WiltonRanch]

I have cases of fungicide in the shed I purchased several years ago thinking I’d be like the guys around me getting that yield bump in wheat but upon scouting fields and being a dryish year I didn’t bother and since then has been no need. I listen to wheat Pete’s shrill sermons about nitrogen fertility and fungicide triangle but need moisture to make a complete triangle. I get it, my area is unique but using fungicides akin to a profylactic mass dose of incoming feeder calves gives ag a bad wrap when resistance issues pop up. I still scout and have used fungicides when necessary. I treat seed when going into cold soils but don’t bother otherwise. I understand why guys do it though.

crop wise here. We’ve caught some decent timely rains and stuff is holding on. Need more though or it’ll go backwards. Hay stands are brutal. Grazing is ok. Canola 3 stages I purposely don’t look. Sprayed out some old pasture. Rock digging is in our future.

[WiltonRanch]

My master plan is to go to my grave without a single fungicide acre under my belt.

I like your thinking.