fusarium

[Hopperbin]

Scouting all my fields totally ****d. Pulling target in morning just way too risky. What are others seeing. Never looked close until today. The wheat here mine looks like 60 lucky to get 40 along with un saleable. So I ask what are others seeing.

[seabass]

Thats what happens when we get mornings that are just like a rain. No wind and no spray make a bad situation. Not all that sure how much that fuz spray works anyway. If u have uneven heading and flowering there ain't much u can do to prevent disease anyway.

[riders2010]

That's just not true hopper, because wheat board guy said only 9 bushel off last years crop of the century. So go look again because those guys know more than us farmers whats out there.

[farmaholic]

Hopper, did you spray for it? We did, but I haven't had a close look yet. Fields look like a nice dark green yet, need to take a much closer look though. We grew Shaw, which got spanked hard with fusarium in 2012, so we just decided it isn't worth the risk. Ditto for the durum. Timing is a bitch with rolly land, low spots are later coming out of the boot and hill tops and sides are flowering. Time will tell.... I used to live in the fields watching....now not so much. I guess that's what happens when you care less with every passing year.

[Hopperbin]

Been a little less dilogent in scouting last 20 years cause wtf never been downgraded.. We got major pink shit everywhere and wetall day long not good. Its all ****ed.

[farmaholic]

seabass, the biggest joke is the chem labels only claim SUPPRESSION, not CONTROL. You'd think the stuff would be cheaper then wouldn't you. Imagine what you'd be paying for control. LOL!

[Daylate]

Lots of pink spots showing up on ours, worse than last year but similar to 2012 so far. This is on durum, so even harder to control being it flowers for twice as long as most wheat. Hope it's not going to be feed, or $7.50/bu goes to $7.50/ 2bu. I would love to contract at this price but fear it's not going to make it. I guess that's the risk for being well out of the traditional growing area.

[seabass]

U bet Farmaholic. To me it don't work worth a shit. Maybe it does a bit but how would a guy know if it flowers at different times and control is only attainable if u have very even crops. Pisses me off when u know spraying only does half the job at full price if your lucky and weather cooperates.

[ajl]

There is some fusarium in traditional durum country of SE Alberta as well.

[farmaholic]

I was thinking about crop rotaions tonight on my way home from checking my beautiful pea crops and wondered how our future rotation is going to look. If peas and lentils are getting harder to grow here, what do I replace them with? Soybeans that harvest in mid to late October? What does that say about soybeans in my part of the Prairies? Fababeans? Canola- expensive to grow and don't like tightening that rotation, even kind of a bad mix with lentils in the rotation, besides lentils aren't suited to our whole farm. Wheat, well economics speak for themselves and there is more than enough wheat in the rotation already. Durum...we are on the fringe of durum growing country, same
for lentils. Yellow mustard... every once in a while when I find a piece of dirt that isn't too dirty or had canola on it for a few years. Flax...kinda like it and it works. Barley.... for malt usually too high protien and never get the decent yields to make it worth while, high volume low value and I get itchy just thinking about it. Years of continuous cropping and the last several of being wetter than normal has built up disease innoculum levels that make continuous cropping challenging. Is it time to blacken the soil again, not summer fallow, but for cropping. Who wants to lrave it.prone to wind and water erosion again? Or chem fallow, and possibly build up even more "reserve" soil moisture. Don't do oats. What about corriander, caraway? Tried canary seed twice, first time was happy with the yield and it combined easy next year I doubled the acres and the shit ran 10 and was limke putting a barbwire fence through the combine, pickets and all. Maybe my new rotaion should be a 4 year rotation. Year one- north neighbor, year two- east neighbor, year three- south neighbor, year four- west
neighbour. Starting year five reverse it and go counter clockwise--- making the west neighbor happy the sixth year.

No seriously, has anyone had to drop peas permanently?

[Braveheart]

Fusarium in combined winter wheat in MB reported at at about 20 percent. We shelled out a neighbours field and wow, it looked ugly.

We haven't noticed much in our hrs yet. Spotted a little ergot though.

Timing of fus protection is tricky. We thought most of our neighbours went too early. Time will tell.

[wmoebis]

Could be lots of opportunities for blending. Not every area will be hit hard but others may have other issues. Blended together the grade can be improved. Canada usually tries to sell/ship In the highest grade possible that is where the most money is.