Pea rant

[bluefargo]

We made the unfortunate decision to seed a fairly high percent of our relatively few acres to peas this year.
Many acres badly flooded but some not.
The unflooded acres were passable but all went flat. I have felt for some time that they really only need two ratings for standability - flat or very flat. Yes some years they stand. Most years not.
Sprayed some fields with fungicide. Absolutely no difference. Wish I had the money back.
The geese are very happy around here!

[blackpowder]

No middle ground with peas. All good or all bad.

[sumdumguy]

Maybe if they were seeded with a companion crop like sunflowers they would stay standing. Just thinking!

[bucket]

Anyone remember carnival peas. Every variety since that has promised better standability and yield has disappointed.

[dave4441]

Are you joking bucket? Stand ability in most years on yellow peas is dramatically better then the past. Yields are way beyond what they were 20 years ago.

We have some issues on maple peas this year and guys with yellows have very few issues.

[hobbyfrmr]

I have grown peas and barle together for a few years. It makes a nice swath like canola. 1.5 bushel per acre each. They battle each other to survive all summer. They thresh similarily.
They separate easily with grain cleaner.
40 bu/acre barley, 14 bu/acre peas.
Organic, second crop, no fert, no spray. I am positive better results conventional. Just have to plan for it.

[Klause]

We grow our peas on wheat stubble... leave thr stubble a foot tall.

Peas still fall over but the stubble keeps them off the ground. Only 1 spot in 1 field had goose damage where we worked a slough and they went to the dirt.

Meadows are really good to harvest. First variety I grew was croma what a pita to harvest

[farmaholic]

Re greens...don't grow Patricks. We started in greens with Parades and they stood pretty good and didn't seem as disease prone. We expandex our Readers this year for next. Hoping for better standability and disease resistance and did seem better than Patricks. There has been some challenging years here with the extra moisture and the odd heavy rain with wind. Sometimes its just the conditions are too brutal....

[dave4441]

Klause is totally correct re stubble height. Problem is the tractor tracks at seeding. Fell right down in those spots. More the year then anything but don't see me growing maples again.

[farmaholic]

Re greens...don't grow Patricks. We started in greens with Parades and they stood pretty good and didn't seem as disease prone. We expandex our Readers this year for next. Hoping for better standability and disease resistance and did seem better than Patricks. There has been some challenging years here with the extra moisture and the odd heavy rain with wind. Sometimes its just the conditions are too brutal....