Canola cupping leaves! Drought or it just hit the gas!

[furrowtickler]

Wet os horrible .... for sure , but so is having a decent crop and putting in all the time and effort , only to watch it wither away . We are not there yet , but it is close at hand . Again , some here have never ever experienced that .... it's no fun either

[furrowtickler]

The icing on the cake if that the last 5 days every retailer in the area is screaming about get your fungicides right now !!!' Lol

[SASKFARMER3]

Watched the storm last night on radar start in Alberta intensify as it moved and then died as it hit into Saskatchewan. Ah dry weather where one rain makes you look like you know what your doing. Critical time for canola yield Cabadge bolt flower vs heat and wind.

[furrowtickler]

Well hopefully we can pick up a freak thunder storm here the next day or so.

[furrowtickler]

Even this morning it just missed us , getting good rains just NE of here .

Setting up an irrigation system today on the kids sweet corn field ...... it's going to need it . At least they can make a few bucks then ... lol

[Partners]

buy a seedhawk and dump the bourgaults with mrb !


# seedhawk = perfect crop

Ya right.Sf3's canola looks like poor germ.
My 8810 looks better than neighbors chicken hawk.

[helmsdale]

Ya right.Sf3's canola looks like poor germ.
My 8810 looks better than neighbors chicken hawk.

Seen a few guys that seeded into unharrowed wheat stubble or God forbid untouched pea stubble. Those seedhawks make excellent muskrat habitats. BTOs gotta getter done in one pass all in the name of efficiency!

[farmaholic]

Helmsdale...I was one of those "God forbid untouched pea stubble" guys. Seeded canola into it. It was dry and didn't work too bad but far from perfect. Some heavy residue in places, I guess that's what happens when you grow a 60 bu/ac pea crop the year before.... Like I'd ever know... never done it before that. I would bet the farm the germination results may have been dramatically worse if I did anything to it before seeding.

An eye opener here was a guy who seeded flax into lentil stubble that "protilled" parts of the field last fall.... you could see the spots that were done as plain as day.... just like you cut it with a knife...areas done versus areas left. Not that everywhere else on the field was perfect, just that everywhere it was tilled was that much worse! Too loose, too deep, too dry, I don't know....they're blaming it on cutworms! Re-seeded it.

[furrowtickler]

buy a seedhawk and dump the bourgaults with mrb !


# seedhawk = perfect crop

Come for a crop tour , I will show you some absolutely horrible crops seeded with a seed hawk . I will even buy the beer .
It's not the machine , it's the guy behind the wheel .
BTW we will drive right by many excellent established canola seeded with all types of Bourgault drills .
Shoot your mouth off or come for a drive .....

[Klause]

We never touch pea straw. Always get shitty emergence. :P I

[helmsdale]

Helmsdale...I was one of those "God forbid untouched pea stubble" guys. Seeded canola into it. It was dry and didn't work too bad but far from perfect. Some heavy residue in places, I guess that's what happens when you grow a 60 bu/ac pea crop the year before.... Like I'd ever know... never done it before that. I would bet the farm the germination results may have been dramatically worse if I did anything to it before seeding.

An eye opener here was a guy who seeded flax into lentil stubble that "protilled" parts of the field last fall.... you could see the spots that were done as plain as day.... just like you cut it with a knife...areas done versus areas left. Not that everywhere else on the field was perfect, just that everywhere it was tilled was that much worse! Too loose, too deep, too dry, I don't know....they're blaming it on cutworms! Re-seeded it.

Farma, I ran a coulter unit over my pea stubble that hardly looked like anything had been done but it sort of sized the vines and stubble into more manageable lengths. Most thought I needed to blacken the soil. I love the look of black soil, but it scares the shit out of me. Even in my short time, I've seen fields blow out so bad it's buggee, payloader, and dump truck territory to reclaim.

I drug my collector 5000 air drill through it and for 85-90% the coulter unit did a good enough job to keep the residue flowing through the drill. The other 10-15% was a bit of a headache. Spent a lot of time spinning pirouettes, and dragging plugs out with the shanks skimming the ground.

Efficiency measured in acres per day sure suffered, but in my neighborhood at least, intensive tillage is just to risky imo.

[SASKFARMER3]

To the seedhawk seed master guy WTF you must not get out much in most areas it doesn't matter if it's a half million drill or a old flexicoil they all come up the same. The local guys with seed hawk were on their knees all spring looking for growth like most.