Simply said......

[farmaholic]

I wish I would have spent more time in the sprayer this season......!!!!

[boarderbloke]

your kidding,,,,,right!!!???

what did you miss,,,,weeds, pests or disease?

hope I don't feel that way when I get on the combine, however, I sense I may too.

crop isn't "all that"

[farmaholic]

Weeds get the full meal deal but should have done more disease and insects. Sclerotinia, midge, fusarium, aphids.

[fjlip]

Torrential rain, 100kph wind, heat and HAIL on most of the farm don't leave much to spray more money on.
Insects will have to move to a good crop.
Losing bu to you name it.

[hobbyfrmr]

Don't worry, the season is not over yet. You can
still spray for loopers, bertha army worm,,
sclerotia, dessicate something, pre harvest
roundup for thistles and quack, and, if you
planted late, you can spray for frost. Then, there
is post harvest spraying.
The more acres you spray, justifies ownership
Simple answer.
You can spray to your heart's desire. Protect your
investment. If you think about it, you can't afford
not to spray.

[bucket]

Or you can spray away your investment.

Trying to best mother nature with a
sprayer is not a winning proposition.

[furrowtickler]

One of the best quotes I ever heard was " You only have about 45 days to realy look after your crop, dont *** it up. That leaves 320 for every thing else."
You do not have to outsmart mother nature but we do have to live off her.

[TOM4CWB]

Furrow,

PERFECTION is not possible... but good planning and hard work bring us closer to being good stewards.

When the bad weather event comes... then all the investments made have new values... but seldom are worthless.

On a Wing and a Prayer... there are folks south of us that are under much more stress than us!

We need that weedy field and thin stand to appreciate all the good planning and blessings that did work out the way we had planned!

Cheers!!!

[bucket]

And when they invent a spray that
protects your ripe durum from a five day
rain, I will buy it.

But I have seen more number one durum go
to a five more than I care to. And all
the planning didn't change the final
result.

So now I enjoy the lake days with the
kids. Those days i can't get back.

[rhoff]

Bucket it's funny you say that cause there is a
product in Europe that will be available here soon
that uses pine resin to water proof you're wheat
stand for about 20 days or so. Does it work ?
Beats me but I guess time will tell. It's called
desicoat.

[furrowtickler]

Bucket that's exactly why we don't grow lentils, did not matter how much we sprayed, we had more crappy lentils than good. Not all crops fit all areas, but the ones that do on good years are worth saving other wise why seed at all.

[farmaholic]

Don't get me wrong, I don't like spraying but looking at the potential of these crops and not going the extra mile is going to cause some problems. I agree, in the end Mother Nature dictates and has the final word but there are some things I could have done to at least help ensure yeild maybe wouldn't have been lost, quality too but Mother Nature stills plays the last card there. Challenging, it is.

Did disease in lentils, barley and flax; did disease and bugs in durum. Didn't do disease in peas and now mycosphaerella is rampant and aphids showed up on same field(hard to justify a insectide when it is so diseased). Didn't do disease in springwheat(not too bad at all) but didn't do midge either(expanding seed for a midge tolerant variety for next year) And worst yet didn't do sclerotinia in canola and think that is the one I will regret the most.