Green Fields this fall.

[sumdumguy]

Is it the year? The combines? The chemicals? We never have seen fall fields anything but golden is past past. What's going on? This year it's a carpet of green everywhere.

[farmaholic]

Unless you have immature crop at risk or need to be chasing perennials/biennials, I'd be praying for a hard frost. Our whole farm got sprayed...too early with too much of a mess to wait.

[bucket]

It's from a long dry spell.

The weeds didn't germinate until the rain came in late July along with some crop that is now a weed.

Sprayed the peas with roundup near the first of august and it's green but that's nearly 2 months now and more rain than in the spring.

Local retailer said if guys don't spray this fall again here will have a great year next year.

[Partners]

Very important to spray after the combine..Caught up to ours yesterday..Some fields are very heavy with weeds between the swaths..A real mess ..Rain is good for the grain out the back, Bly and oat fields are thicker than seeded..

[furrowtickler]

These harvest delays are a great opertunity to do fall weed control . Everything sprayed after harvest here is working very well .

[fjlip]

Invigor fields are the greenest, between swaths and after the combine. Every seed germed after spraying when rain started, still has NOT stopped. Similar mess to 2010 here, and now combine ruts in some fields.

[Guest]

we always spray every acre post harvest that wasn't dessicated . don't usually have to do them again . we try to wait for a frost or two , seems to kill better . I think it's the best money we spend . wow , the fields are green , tho .

[ado089]

With all the moisture and frost surely to come soon why not just let stuff grow? Unless the weeds are perennial who cares? They're holding nutrients in place, catching snow, reducing errosion and sequestering carbon. I'm loving the growth on the pea stuble now, they gotta be fixing close to 10# of N a week now. I'm quite concerned about the already sprayed fields greening up again though, we don't need anymore green shit in the sample.

[Guest]

ado , I was wondering about that , do volunteer peas set N without an inocullant ? don't they have to get quite a bit bigger also? just wondering ?

[farmaholic]

Holy crap. We never have that much volunteer peas. Open seives wide and crank up the wind. Header dividers may shell a bit or if its pushes before its caught but throw out would be minimal. Hail/wind damage?

[bucket]

Farmaholic

I guess your germination tests are done then?

[HFL]

So what chemicals do you use?

[ado089]

I had hail. They nodulate great from this year's build up of rhizobia.

[furrowtickler]

Have to agree will ado on the pea thing - we both seen it last year in the soil tests he did. Canola yields have been great on that pea stubble this year for 2.7 in of rain during the growing season. But last year the green was 90% peas and very little weeds. This year not so much - I said piss on it and sprayed it earlier due to hawksbeard and other nasty things coming besides peas.
I would imagine the growth will be subdued now though after this morning - lol.