Plant health and incedence of disease

[ado089]

I use P3 with herbicide on peas. I feel it prevent herbicide flash and speeds up nodulation development.

[freewheat]

Honestly it depends how wet it is. A spindly knee high bolting canola crop, which has happened more than once on my farm, is only saved if it dries out in time.

Honestly, that is the only answer IMO. Last year we had the most pathetic looking canola in the beginning of bolting, and then it quit raining for long enough for it to grow out of it.

Most of the other years of wet, it never stopped raining, and so it never grew out of it worth a crap. If it is that wet, there is nothing that can be done.

I think there is wet, and then there is really wet. Our perspectives of wet may be different. When a crop is drowning in mud, nothing can give it the OXYGEN it needs. In my experience, and I have a lot of it, when O2 is the limiting factor, there is nothing to do.

Regarding tillage. around here, everyone seeds at the same time. Tillage offers us no advantage IMO in timeliness.

If it is wet and raining, as SF3 says, there is no practice that stands out. Borderline wet, sure. But truly wet, it really does not matter. Bare soil is wet, no till is wet. It is all wet.

I actually find where it is tilled, it is sloppier, and loose, and actually worse for traction. No till does not get that same slop factor. once drier, yes, tilled warms better and dries a bit better.

Wet? Or really wet???? lol

[furrowtickler]

We have been boarderline here , canola showed some stress last year on a few fields , wheat was fine but peas took er in the chin. Not all peas though - tilled fields , loam soil, canola stb, were better in general.
One field I talked about before was very interesting - winter wheat stb was ok, hrsw stb was fuked -same field, same fertility, same rotation for 8 years , same herbicides.

[CANOLANAZI]

Fall tillage on heavy cereal stubble in wet years definitely dries the ground up compared to no till seeding operations. This is coming from someone who does not like tilling. If you drive around now as the snow is melting you can pick out the fields that have some form of tillage compared to ones that are undisturbed. The tilled ones have less less snow and they dry up faster. Spring tillage is a different monster depending on the weather after.
Anything you can do to help the crop or fool the crop to grow through wet conditions is a huge plus. Seed treatments or micros can help this. Strobe fungicides are also good for this.
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