Well this week finally with the heat created a friendly environment for grain production and making hay!
You can actually get out of the sprayer and not get that muddy changing a tip.
Wheat took off after finally hitting the gas. Aceppella done at flag has done its job. Nice healthy plants where the water wasn't killing them. The wheat is starting to head to some early fields fully headed. I would guess that most wheat is now only 5 days behind normal for our area. Craven Friday is gauge we used for years. Potential is their but with drowned out time will tell, those spots are now brown and dead and gone. Midge only a few that throw the hail marry pass are doing anything. Farmers if its headed its to late to spray midge.
Barley finally came into its own, ours is later seeded. The early seeded looks to have issues only one or two fields that really impress in our area the rest are thinner. Not sure why but believe all the water had something to do with it. Some fungicides went on early.
Oats is still struggling but is at least looking better. Early is awesome in our area later is poorer.
Flax is their but not like last year thin fields thin plants trying to flower.
Peas WTF is about sum up of all peas. Even the Pea champ in our area doesn't have a decent field. Their flowering to shutting down.
Lentils the fields I see may as well be worked down and called a year, the flood destroyed these.
Soy is looking great had second spray of roundup and loves the heat were getting. Changes every day. Time will tell but looks to be ahead of last year. This is a new variety and not our old stand by Pekos.
Canola what can one say. Some fields came back so so and others just keep getting ugly. Emails are flying how us farmers should spray. Well thin fields with hardly any bottom kind of isn't ripe for disease especially with all the warm weather. Pod blast will happen this coming week with the heat.
Basically the heat is both welcome and not. We have shallow roots with all the excess moisture from spring. Plants have to grow down to get the moisture and extreme heat causes them to some times not get their. Pod blast and early shut down if temps don't lower to 28. But on the positive side the heat will get us to speed up the crop. Most farmers have parked the sprayer or are going to and saying F*&k it this one isn't getting any more money.
Be safe and have a great week this headache we call farming isn't worth getting hurt over.
You can actually get out of the sprayer and not get that muddy changing a tip.
Wheat took off after finally hitting the gas. Aceppella done at flag has done its job. Nice healthy plants where the water wasn't killing them. The wheat is starting to head to some early fields fully headed. I would guess that most wheat is now only 5 days behind normal for our area. Craven Friday is gauge we used for years. Potential is their but with drowned out time will tell, those spots are now brown and dead and gone. Midge only a few that throw the hail marry pass are doing anything. Farmers if its headed its to late to spray midge.
Barley finally came into its own, ours is later seeded. The early seeded looks to have issues only one or two fields that really impress in our area the rest are thinner. Not sure why but believe all the water had something to do with it. Some fungicides went on early.
Oats is still struggling but is at least looking better. Early is awesome in our area later is poorer.
Flax is their but not like last year thin fields thin plants trying to flower.
Peas WTF is about sum up of all peas. Even the Pea champ in our area doesn't have a decent field. Their flowering to shutting down.
Lentils the fields I see may as well be worked down and called a year, the flood destroyed these.
Soy is looking great had second spray of roundup and loves the heat were getting. Changes every day. Time will tell but looks to be ahead of last year. This is a new variety and not our old stand by Pekos.
Canola what can one say. Some fields came back so so and others just keep getting ugly. Emails are flying how us farmers should spray. Well thin fields with hardly any bottom kind of isn't ripe for disease especially with all the warm weather. Pod blast will happen this coming week with the heat.
Basically the heat is both welcome and not. We have shallow roots with all the excess moisture from spring. Plants have to grow down to get the moisture and extreme heat causes them to some times not get their. Pod blast and early shut down if temps don't lower to 28. But on the positive side the heat will get us to speed up the crop. Most farmers have parked the sprayer or are going to and saying F*&k it this one isn't getting any more money.
Be safe and have a great week this headache we call farming isn't worth getting hurt over.
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