June 8th crop report.

[JDGreen]

Since SF3 is busy being consumed by the chinese, I have noticed he has not started our annual crop reports. So here it is as of June 8th. Scale of 1 (shit) to 10 (super awesome)

Durum - 9 - Early durum (april 23rd)at 5 leaves,2 tillers sprayed and top dressed. Late durum at 2-3 leaves and will be sprayed with 5-7 days

Canola - 9 - 2-4 leaf stage. Very even germination at seeding rate of 3.3-3.5 ibs with a master. Looking to top dress within next 7 days. All sprayed once and very clean

Yellow peas - 9 - sprayed early with oddysey/solo/viper at 10-12gpa. Excellent results with Zero flashing.

Green lentils - 10 - early ones (April 26th within a week of vegetative. Later group (may 14th-16th) ready to spray

Red lentils - 9.5 - All sprayed with solo/Oddysey.

Moisture is fantastic. Rival/Edge working lights out this year. 25mm rain and counting since 4:00 a.m

[freewheat]

Area stalled at 80% done. Early crops
starting to emerge. Emergence poor in
lower areas. Lower areas also have water
in them. What did emerge looks alright,
hard to give young crops a number
though. Too early to tell....

Floated canola anywhere from just
emerging to sitting in the dust, though
our third of an inch should make it all
come though.

Soil is warm, the later seeded stuff is
emerging in 4-5 days.

Overall, the countryside here is various
shades of stubble colour, backdropped by
nice green woodlands.

Glad to here your good fortune JD guy.
Should make some money.

For the rest of us, there is always next
year. lol

[ALLFARMER]

Here in the north peace we have had 1/4" of rain
so far this spring. Spraying canola at 8.5 mph to
keep the dust down.

Is anyone still using the JD way of using the
sprayer pump to suck on chemical? Filling the
sprayer (1050 gallons) in about 3 or 4 minutes
with a 3" pump using a chem handler online that
the 3" stream sucks and mixes as sprayer fills.
Once chem in top off sprayer while refilling chem
handler. Spraying about 7 quarters/day with 80'
boom 12 to 13 hr days. Just heard the JD way
was taking a while to fill

[ALLFARMER]

Darn auto correct INLINE chem handler!

[highwayman]

What's your recipe for top dress JD. We are
considering top dressing as well at 4 leaf stage as
soon as sun comes out again. We currently have
about 80-30-0-15 of actual nutrient down now with
seed and mid-row band in silty clay loam soils.
Trying to determine if there would be any net
benefit to adding more. Last year invigor 5440
averaged 47 net bus/acre with same nutrient
package. Hot dry July was biggest yield limiter.

[JDGreen]

Ok am at 74-25-0-17. Will bring this to . 102N with 10 usg of 28-0-0. No specific recipe but look for the 4 leaf stage or so as well. Will get a pic of my canola up that is ready to be done. I mix in agrotain (dry) at 0.5kg/mt and let er rip with tristream nozzles. Always get some leaf burn but it is minimal and doesn't seem to bother. I try to time this within hours of expected showers. I put it down fast. 20mph with 120' and dont worry about it unless the wind starts to break stream pattern. Debating on keeping my 650's on or switching to my 380's for this right now. I have always seen yield increase of low side of 4 to high side of 10 bpa with this investment. It is usually very steady in the 5-7 bpa range. It is important to get it on sooner rather than later. Last year undressed was 44 and dressed was 49 side by side on the trial in D3151 RR. Invigor 5440 was 49 undressed and 54 ish dressed. I only do this in years of deep moisture and plenty of rainfall forecasted. This works well in this area (dark brown fine sandy loam) We can lose nitrogen very deep to the B and C horizons because of our soil makeup. This seems to keep it rollin until it finds the deeper N when its flowering/podding. I am by no means a canola expert and could be corrected by more knowledgeable growers on this site. How about micros on second app of herbicide? Anyone have any knowledge there?

[furrowtickler]

Seen posive results from Black Lable canola folliar. Tried quite a few. Going to try some product from ATP next week.
Dito your commnets on topdressing 28

[sawfly]

highway man what kind of soil test phos.
numbers do you have to start with.
i have probably been too cheap with the phos. using 15-20 lbs act. on soil test levels of 50-60.
rented land may have some to do with that.
run about the same for N 80-90 on canola ,wheat stubble, 60 N on pea stubble.

i spread some some AMS early spring to get my sulfur level up , because i can't get enough in seed row. i think the N in it , has given the canola a boost, before it hits the mid row.
it just jumping,

now with this real good rain, 1 1/2 so far.
time to consider top dress / fungicide

and after last year when 90 lb.s only
got 12.4 protein hrsw. and it stayed green a long time. i think any extra n will go on canola

maybe this year ,as dry as it is in the states protein won't pay anyway.

[SASKFARMER3]

Good post JD and yes Im in a whole other
world rethinking farming in this area.
Durum up good emergence and will spray
next week.
Peas up good but should have not tried
seeding 3 plus bushels using the
Seedmaster fert and seed boots as
spliters.
Peas that are deep are having issues.
Will spray monday if the rain stays
away. So far so good not that much maybe
3 tents.
Canola, 7 real nice that were seeded
early 10 So so poor in wet areas but
still plants trying to come up, Spraying
these for flee beetles as little ones
need help. 8 Just poking out. Funny how
late seeded is almost as fast as the
early seeded. Will start liberty
spraying later next week.
HRS. Nice catch early stuff needs to be
sprayed late just can see the rows.
Barley just barely out of ground. Burn
off after seeding is holding real nice.
Oats not worth talking about because I
dropped most acreage from other years.
Fields not seeded because of Access and
to wet 1. Will spray when RM builds me a
road.
Have a great day! Still optimistic with
this crop. But I need a frost free
OCTOBER!

[JDGreen]

Interesting comment on the pea seeding. Was thinking of doing the same thing with the master next year. Guess will just take the time and set all the openers at 1.25". 3/4" is not deep enough for peas. Have gotten away with it with wet starts, but will be bad in a drier spring.

[Klause]

SK -


Done seeding. Wheat up, canola just barely up, flax not up, barley just finished seeding on Thursday.


MB -


Wheat....
Oats, 2 - 3 leaf stage. canola looks crappy (thanks to early frost), beans so so.


Gotta spray.... lots of dandilion fuz in the wheat!

[Klause]

This is JDGReen's canola....

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[sumdumguy]

Looks like turnips

[furrowtickler]

June 7th , much the same as JD. By june 15th could be much diff. Still alot more rain in forcast next 7 days. Our turn now. Kinda like last year but three weeks earlier.

[Hopperbin]

Is that a fried cleaver on the left of canola crop?