Mother Nature just took another million tonnes off the books

[fjlip]

Agree, always swath E-W. Smoother field to also seed that direction.
Does everyone use a swath roller?
Some neighbors do not.
We never pack too hard but squeeze a bit to compact the canola.

[freewheat]

Cotton, some were kind enough, though some
were kinda not. Some told me to leave my
swamp land, lol. It's all good, I'm a
tough German, hardy peasant stock kinda
guy.. LOL

[farmaholic]

I will take full responsibility for the things that I can control or things I could have done but didn't.
Wilagro, we never did have oodles of trees here, on the edge of Regina Plains, there were some but nothing major so wind still tends to howl. May I ask you if you have any skin in the game of actually producing a crop, do you actually farm?

[farmaholic]

Sorry for not reading the entire thread to get Willies reply.

Parsley: sorry can't help with the wine-olin lessons(maybe could have 20 years ago) but I am an expert whine-olin player!!!

[wilagro]

farmaholic: Just quit farming cereals...just into grass now...too old to hack it any more. That's life.

Parkland area here...used to be lots of trees although fewer all the time as some big farmers cut 'em down. Soil used to blow here in the old days too. Most farmsteads still have trees and some vulnerable land lined with windbreaks where far-sighted farmers planted for the future.

[SASKFARMER3]

Jd I agree we have always seeded canola east to
west then spray east to west and finally swath
east to west. Finding fields that I worked with
Kelly harrow last fall look better, thicker bigger
pods, hm I am on a half section that I worked the
middle and it's better. Im thinking maybe a way to
beat the rain. Shallow tillage and high speed.
Maybe grasping at straws but have to try
everything to beat the moisture. We finally missed
a downpour. 1st storm in years.

[jensend]

might also be that 15 or 20 years of zero till has built up a hell of a nice layer of host material for diseases and pests right at the soil surface. conventional tillage oxidized the o.m. and gave the disease less opportunity to survive until the next host crop. nothing for free.

[furrowtickler]

I agree Jensend, its a combo af many things

[sumdumguy]

Think you may be right Jensend. Disease loves
rotting material.

[furrowtickler]

One of the main reasons we are looking at a vertical tillage machine.

[SASKFARMER3]

Fields we worked last fall had less
problems with moisture had nicer healthier
plants taller and bigger pods. Kelly high
speed disc harrow is probably going to be
on our farm this fall. Direct seeded since
1986. Time to change things up.

[SASKFARMER3]

The deep sub soiler that was used in the
area the fields look the same as where it
wasnt used.

[furrowtickler]

Would a kelly disc work well in pea stuble in fall?

[SASKFARMER3]

Where we used it on pea stubble on outside
rounds made seeding easy.

[sumdumguy]

Subsoilers turn up huge lumps in gumbo. The
year after there are problems with seed
placement. A few years later, back to normal.