Word on the street this morning ..

[seabass]

Little pissy eh Sk3! Somebody out yielded your little patch if heaven. Good for the guy I say. Hope to get there someday.

[furrowtickler]

Most field scale plots are within 10% of the field there in around here . Been doing this for 15 years here. But local land here is not all that variable . Areas with highly variable land it can be up to 20%

[SASKFARMER3]

No I'm not pissy at the guy who grew it at raymore. Hell he is a hour away so I would say similar weather to ours. . What I am pissed at is these bull shit weigh wagon yield trials.

[stonepicker]

90 avg. is very impressive! Is that irrigated land furrow?

[farmaholic]

But but but, it has to be official, its been weighed and documented by third party independent auditors!

My question would be how it was treated during the growing season. Enough rain (but not too much) lots of groceries(tissue tests and foliar apps?), fungicides, decent temps at flowering? Sounds like some stars need to line up as well as a big effort by the grower)

I really don't think it would pay to aim that high "here". Can't imagine the volume of crop material.

[Klause]

That sounds awful fishy land around raymore is lucky to do 30 bu.

That's not very fertile land sound there?


H33 did well for us. Very well. Just saying I don't think I believe that number quite.
Not shooting the messenger... lol!!

[fjlip]

If we had combined the 20 acres on chicken shit separately , would have seen over 70, but most of field way less and some drown outs, so 39 field average. Weather needs to be ideal as well as fertility, rare for stars to align.

[ajl]

This year process potatoes (french fries) produced the biggest crop ever in S AB. There are so many potatoes that most growers are leaving some in the field since contracts are full and there is no open market for them. In this case they have been using the same variety for 100 yrs or more. (russet burbank). It was just almost perfect potato weather the whole season long that did it. Typical yields on these are in the 20-25 ton/ac range. If the weather cooperates that is everything.

[saskcanfarmer]

And I can give you 100s of trial year data and PHI beats Dekalb 3 out of 10 years and beats invigor 2 out of 10 years. It's pretty simple its inferior to those two brands. Site year say so as does Crop Insurrance in all three provinces.

[tweety]

Don't you dare bring data to the discussion!

[Jay-mo]

Last year a neighbor did a foliar nutrient/growth hormone trial on canola. Did one mile strips replicated across a half section.
At first each treated strip out yielded the previous check strip only to have the next check strip out yield the previous treated pass. This continued across the entire field. With the last check strip being the highest yield of them all.
What did he learn?
Good thing he left check strips on the entire field or he might have sprayed his entire farm with a $15/a. product that does nothing.

[Jay-mo]

Point being the biggest uncontrolled variable factor in some of these trials is that each variety is not grown on the same dirt.

[Klause]

We did a weigh wagon trial of 45h33 and 75-65 from dekalb. 33 out yielded dekalb by 8bu.

[furrowtickler]

Saskcan - does that data include the huge green seed issue Dekalb has had - in clouding last year ?
Just curious,

[furrowtickler]

Actually never mind - you seem to be on a witch hunt steady , so be it , giver.
This was not about this is better that that grade 5 pissing match .
Simply a huge yield that's exciting to see this year. There is no doubt the field won't average that but it does give a glimps into yield potential of some of these new varieties.
I am sure there will be big numbers somewhere in Invigour and Dekalb daft this fall - it's info take it or leave it