What's up with our peas?

[dave4441]

[QUOTE=Jagfarms;348670]

We seeded all Mosaic Maple Peas. No lentils this year[/QUOTE

When your not seeding lentils kind of worries me with your knowledge of the lentil market
Was it disease pressure that you did not seed lentils or pricing ?


We are about 1/3 peas this year and 2/3 lentils for our pulse rotation most years we are 95% lentils

No, I seeded all my acres to reds last year with the idea that market would flood in 2016. It took alot longer then I expected but result is same. Red lentils will need to push below 20 cents (for #2) this next year. There just wasn't the pull back in acreage that was needed or that I expected. It's correct, lentils are everywhere. We are down a million acres but we are still in record acreage territory and very low level of forward sales are in place. India just doesn't need the product.

So I grew a niche pea that is tiny market. Will see how many people thought the same. Lol

[helmsdale]

Dave must be the only one who didn't seed lentils I've never seen so many in my travels around southern sask.

Many fields in western alberta as well... A little out of their element. Wise tale was they only needed to get wet twice. Once when you seed them, and the second time when they hit the pot. In western AB they may only be dry twice. Once when they sit on the seed truck and a second time when they're heading to the bin.

[sofa.king]

Dave must be the only one who didn't seed lentils I've never seen so many in my travels around southern sask.

[Jagfarms]

[QUOTE=dave4441;348663]We seeded all Mosaic Maple Peas. No lentils this year[/QUOTE

When your not seeding lentils kind of worries me with your knowledge of the lentil market
Was it disease pressure that you did not seed lentils or pricing ?


We are about 1/3 peas this year and 2/3 lentils for our pulse rotation most years we are 95% lentils

[dave4441]

We seeded all Mosaic Maple Peas. No lentils this year

[grassfarmer]

I've done a fair bit of brix testing our forages, be aware that results vary greatly with time of day readings are taken and day to day depending on temperature and the plants reaction to that factor. It has been an interesting experiment but not a game changer, rather confirms what we already knew for us in terms of having enough quality in the grass/legumes to fatten cattle. Biggest problem I have with it is breaking garlic presses trying to squeeze moisture out of grass.

[Jagfarms]

Dave
What kind of Peas do you have in this year?

[Jagfarms]

I am no expert on Brix testing but here is some info I found on line.


Brix testing involves using a hand-held device called a refractor to make a visual reading on the sugar content of plant material. The test actually refers to the total amount of soluble solids, that is, sugars along with plant proteins, vitamins, and minerals.



A Brix reading lower than 10 tells the farmer that the plant lacks nutrients. The desirable reading is 13, which indicates a robust and nutrient-rich plant. To measure the Brix a refractometer is necessary as well as a method of extracting the juice from the plant.

The optical refractometer uses daylight passed through a glass prism to measure Brix. The reading is read through an eyepiece, and the user measures the refracted light angle on an optical scale. 


To obtain juice/sap samples some people use garlic presses.

[poorboy]

My peas look like that also in wetter clay areas of field. Yellow tops of plants suggests sulphur deficiency. Perhaps try some foliar S.

[bgmb]

What is the idea behind a brix meter? Tells you the sugar content of the plant?