Crop Rotations???

[saskcanfarmer]

Was looking hard at Attain this past spring but ended up trying Infinity. Was actually quite pleased with Infinity. Really cooked the cleavers. Still a big fan of frontline. You could definitely tell this past spring which cereal stubble was sprayed with it. We have also had good luck with trusty old Refine. Seems to have enough activity on the cleavers here. What have you been using?

[saskcanfarmer]

Also thought about splitting applications of Attain and Horizon and doing them seperatly. Thought about this with all our broad leaf and wild oat chemicals in wheat and barley actually.

[AG_guy]

group 2 chemicals are very hard on crops and will acually cost you a couple bushels when applied.

canola does not host mycorrhiza fungi so what you plant after makes a big difference on the dependency of the fungi. Here is the potential i repeat potential yield loss without mycorrhiza fungi.

Linseed greater then 90%
sunflower,pea,maize and chickpea 60-80%
sorghum,soybean 40-60%
wheat,barley,triticale 10-30%
canary 0-10%

Your VAM levels are very important.

[Hopperbin]

You are saying everything you plant after Canola is going to be less in yield? That is not going to fly with farmers with experience. There are areas that grow excellent canola and other than that nothing much, in other words canola is the cash and what keeps the farms going. Without canola you loose your farm and livelyhood. Canola has a good tap root that can the soil more healthy for following crops.

[AG_guy]

never said don't grow canola. I said some crops yield can suffer if grown after canola. peas are very dependent on mycorrizia were oates and wheat aren't. peas do better when an abundence of mycorrizia are. In fact there are farmers that are buying mycorrizia fungi and adding it to there soils . there is so much research on this it aint even funny, but i guess if the local retail don;t know anything about it then it must all be lies.