Killing Frost ?

[Guest]

looks like we are going into november without a frost . We have -1 or -2 for a couple hours 3 or 4 times but that is it ! Monsanto canola blooming all over the country . really odd fall . we finished spraying roundup but never got the 4 or 5 degrees of frost that always make roundup kill the hard weeds better

[SASKFARMER3]

Nice Cabbage on the RR Canola and yes ours is now Blooming.
Nice weed. Really nice weed.

[TOM4CWB]

We finally got toasted yesterday! Frost behind the bins all day... minus 12 at 8am... now freezing rain!???

[hobbyfrmr]

Why not spray some more? You have a big sprayer might as well make use of it.
You have the time now, you can get the right chemical to kill the volunteer RR canola. Save moisture and nutrients for next year. You might even get a year end inventory clearance discount on chemical.

[farmaholic]

Well hobby, if the Octobercide never worked I guess guys will have to use Novembercide.

[boarderbloke]

About the same here caseih, -3 on three different nights. Volunteer canola now above the stubble and blooming. Guys that sprayed everything incrop preharvest or just really early sure have a heavy mat of growth(cereals particularly) sucking up the nitrogen. Some tried harrowing, it looked better for a couple days, then after the first shower, all the growth was obvious again. I've always understood that volunteer growth in the fall like we're seeing, really sucks up the nutrients. I bet on a el Niño fall and delayed my spraying, so glad I did now. (Also through in some 2,4-D when covering the RR canola stubble).

[cottonpicken]

Geese showed up is it just me or are they three weeks late?

[boarderbloke]

Ya cotton I'd say they're late too. Neighbours usually have a big goose hunt Thanksgiving weekend, this year all that was available for them to shoot at were the local birds. They made out all right just the same, and in a way I was happy to see some of the local geese culled down.

[tweety]

that's funny farma

[AlbertaFarmer5]

We have been -10 twice lately. But doesn't seem to have killed the straight cut canola. Still blooming away. Yesterday the ice in a 5 gallon pail never did melt.

[Guest]

boarder , the good thing here is that along with the N it's sucking it's also using some of this excess water up which is always our biggest yield robber in this country !