Pulse School: A Long-Term Plan for the Control of Cleavers

[shaney]

Does your farm have <em>the
cleavers</em>?

In this episode of the <a
href="http://www.pulseschool.com">Pulse
School</a>, Ken Sapsford, research
assistant at the University of
Saskatchewan, explains issues
surrounding the abundance of cleavers
across the prairies. With the shift
towards no-till farming practices,
cleavers, which were once considered a
summer annual, are now overwintering,
particularly in the presence of good
snow cover. Besides being in the five to
eight whorl stage in spring, some of
these cleavers are also Group 2
resistant. The problem will only become
increasingly severe without management,
and Sapsford explains the need to find
alternative herbicides or risk losing
pulse acres.

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[shaney]

Apparently I don't know how to do this
anymore. hahha

[FarmRanger]

You need to copy the embed and paste it into the body of the message, like so:

[shaney]

are you using the old embed code or the
new one.

[FarmRanger]

I pasted http://youtu.be/QWIlhAJfXFA into the browser,
then clicked on share,
then clicked on embed,
and copied the text in the embed box to paste into the message box here at Agriville.

[ajl]

After a couple of good canola yrs (2010
and 11) there are a lot of people with
unrealistic expectations of canola
yields. Input suppliers are in the
business of convincing you that your
competitors are getting those yields
routinely. Lots of difference between
the best field and the farm wide average
in most cases I am sure.

[Digger]

Canola has appreciated $40/mt since May
7????

[Hopperbin]

this positive 80 basis off nov and deliver now
looks good wonder if they will let ypu do it for a
jan future month . for remaining old rop

[Hopperbin]

true it is appreciating new crop futures months
have plenty uf upside potentiol less downside in
my opinion

[hobbyfrmr]

30 bu/acre x $13.00 = $390/acre minus $300.00/
acre costs =$90.00/acre profit. 1000 acres
planted gives you $90,000. Why worry?

[SASKFARMER3]

Hobby 30 x 16 gives you 480 - 300 gives you 180
profit on1000 that's making money. Not feeding
them product for no profit!

[agstar77]

Actually Soy does better in wet conditions than canola. That is one of the reasons we switched. As long as you can get it established it will do well in a wet summer if the warmth is there.

[ajl]

Very few farms produced a farm wide
average of 30 last year. Try 24 x 13
hobby. That is why canola is up.

[HappyFarmer]

Exactly Hobby, 100 % agree with you.
Arguing about the fact that canola acres
wont go in, soy is wet, canada is wet,
Bla, Bla, Bla tends to go to far some
times on here. Could all those
circumstance some to light, sure they
could. Do i feel bad for they guys that
cant get the rest of there crop in, of
course i do. But there is still a big
story to be played out in North America.
Best quote i have heard this year and i
keep going back to was something cotton
put on here this winter from Mark Twain
quoting "It's not what you know that
gets you in trouble, its what you know
for certain that's not true that does"

And a fast fact, this is the 3 wettest
May on record of Iowa. The wettest was
2004, the same year that state produced
the highest yielding corn and soybean
crop on record. There is a big story to
be played out yet. Making predictions on
the 2013 crop on May the 29 is
ridiculous.

[HappyFarmer]

oh ya and hopper check out bunge in
Harrowby, they are 110 over nov for June
delivery, can truck canola a long way for
30 bucks a tonne.

Just a thought.