Frost watch

[hobbyfrmr]

A few years ago there was a late may killing frost. There was something like 66,000 acres reseeded early june. End result was a huge canola crop. One neighbor left the least damaged canola to recover and reseeded the rest of the farm. The difference was 20 bu/acre more on the reseeded acres. Yields were just shy of 70 bu/acre. The second mouse gets the cheese.

[Jay-mo]

-2 overnight in SW Mb. Canola seed also still in the bag. Ready to roll Monday morning. Been burned too many times the last number of years seeding canola in the first half of May.

[farmaholic]

Catch 22....'

So we forge ahead and seed canola into ground that is ready, ground temp is reasonable and soil moisture is good, no spring rains since the last blast of snow, moisture conditions continue to deteriorate so as I said we forge ahead to take advantage of soil moisture. Even at that, there is still likely some that is laying in dry ground because of the hurricane winds, heat and low humidity.

How do you manage such a situation. In the meantime I still wait for a shot of rain to germinate canola seed stranded in dry dirt! And the stuff that did manage to emerge is frosted!

Farming is a tough way to make a living.

The irony is we wouldn't have enough moisture near the surface to re-establish a canola stand! ****ing retarded!

[Braveheart]

A lot of canola up here. Won't look at it for a few days but am expecting it to be ok. Temps in the shade were -1.3 but a decent wind. Soil also carrying good heat this year. Fingers crossed.

[farmaholic]

.....and please don't tell me the stuff stranded in dry dirt is a blessing because it was saved from the frost. For how long have I been hoping for a shot of rain? So now we may have stuff that is on the verge of emergence, some that is frosted and hopefully recover, and some that is laying their waiting for moisture... ya, a real good scenario!

[fjlip]

.....and please don't tell me the stuff stranded in dry dirt is a blessing because it was saved from the frost. For how long have I been hoping for a shot of rain? So now we may have stuff that is on the verge of emergence, some that is frosted and hopefully recover, and some that is laying their waiting for moisture... ya, a real good scenario!

Are we having FUN YET? And here the fields are not in any condition to be seeded. Lumpy after working, wet sticky MUD. Hellish compacted tracks, ruts!

[Quadtrack]

A dry frost and small canola surrounded by trash...make sure there is seed available.

[Guest]

and another scenario is zero acres seeded and a week of weather needed to do anything at all . crop still out , ruts and water all over hells half acre . could always be worse

[Guest]

A dry frost and small canola surrounded by trash...make sure there is seed available.

that's the only time frost got us is on the one dry year we had

[danny W1M]

NO WORRIES, I'm sure CANOLA SEED will be cheaper, as the futures prices are down $5-6/tonne this morning.

farrma, you lucky farmer, your ungerminated canola seed means, you only have to buy 3 lbs to reseed, instead of 5 lbs.

BTW, this cold weather will help preserve your moisture, and even better news, (perhaps just speaking for our area), the temps are forecast to be below normal for the next two weeks !

glowball eiffing warming !

oh ya, soybean love cold ground !

[furrowtickler]

Works well Tweety or you can leave if for the flea Beatles and have it struggle on it own for the next 7-10 days .

[furrowtickler]

Been there and done it , saved more than a few canola crops .

[furrowtickler]

Problem with flea Beatles is if you have stripped Beatles after a frost they will go after the stem when not much leaf matter .
A few bites on the stem then there is zero chance that canola comes back at all .
But whatever you think Tweety , your the expert .
I know from experience, not a book

[biglentil]

Lost a few canola soldiers last night, a large number have emerged today. They are calling for -2 again hope that doesn't mean -6 again.

[Daylate]

Nuked over half our plants on the first 15% of canola we seeded. True leaves are even black. Not just the cotyledons. Oh gully. Just finishing seeding tomorrow. So wait and see how they look Monday. Then maybe start again.
The low was -4.