Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[Guest]

Seed is too expensive, use sweet clover instead - fixes a pile N and the roots go deeper than tillage radish.

sweet clover is the one of worst weeds going ! i sure wouldn't seed it .once you seed it , it is there FOREVER alfalfa really works good , though
how does tillage radish work , know nothing about it ? seed costs ? when do you seed it ?

[farmaholic]

Is it for intercropping or an alternative to an annual crop...like summerfallowing? The wake up call on our farm was you need rain to be successful no matter what.

Anything that would continue to tap out the moisture In the dry areas until freeze up in this low rainfall year would almost seem counter productive.

[grassfarmer]

sweet clover is the one of worst weeds going ! i sure wouldn't seed it .once you seed it , it is there FOREVER alfalfa really works good , though
how does tillage radish work , know nothing about it ? seed costs ? when do you seed it ?

Presumably the regular applications of glyphosate would take care of any volunteer sweet clover?
Tillage radish grows a big taproot which scavenges a lot of nutrients from the soil and holds them over the winter to release for the next crop. It also leaves holes for water to infiltrate and the dead leaves cover the ground surface holding back weed growth. That's the theory anyway.
We experimented with it a bit and found that it couldn't penetrate the hardpan in many cases - just went sideways when it hit it. It has to be seeded after the longest day or else it puts all it's energy into above ground growth and flowering versus growing the taproot. Seed cost ran about $30 an acre - not so bad for us as we were grazing the leaves off but I guess tough to justify for someone with no livestock. Needs about 40lb of N to grow a strong crop.
Typically seeded after an early harvested grain crop farma, and as you say you need moisture to get a crop. Works better in the US where they get all the cover crop seeds for free under the guise of soil conservation but really just another hidden subsidy.

[farmaholic]

Thanks Grass

[SASKFARMER3]

Rolling again yesterday it tested 13.9 today 10.4 were rolling.

[SASKFARMER3]

Little guy I surprised today

[furrowtickler]

Ours went from 13.3 to 14.9 lol . So sitting

[SASKFARMER3]

Young moose!

[SASKFARMER3]

800 to go by later tonight it’s just over 10.5 today

[blackpowder]

Lock your bins Sask3.
Looks like if we get at canola at all here this fall she'll go damp straight to crush off combine.