Ah the Blue Canola, Not a good sign, But what aren't the Experts telling us.

[grassfarmer]

Been wondering grass, how has your gray and pasture fared. Has It rebounded after that storm?

Pasture is starting to come back now, hay is gone but it's starting to grow from the bottom so we will likely get a "second cut" crop. Triticale is starting to head out, won't make a foot high. Corn bounced back surprisingly but so did a fresh flush of weeds. Only thing that will turn things around for us is substantial rain and there is no indication of any coming.

[Oliver88]

Get rid of mid row banders and go side band !

In dry conditions the canola doesn’t get any n !

Interesting, I think I’ll keep doing an extra pass to put on NH3 ahead of time.

[MBgrower]

canola around my area looks really good, had excellent catch, but no rain all june. fields are now wilting in the afternoons, and its short, 30% flowered, suffering heat blast too. looks like 50 bpa but wont do more than 28 this year. no one spraying fungicides on anything, that is very rare in s. mb.

[Guest]

Interesting, I think I’ll keep doing an extra pass to put on NH3 ahead of time.

sure works well here in the swamp . we always juice all the oats, barley , wheat and canary fields in fall . we didn't do one field because we were seeding borage there . even on this dry spring it would not dry . muddled it in end of May , got 2.5" rain 3 days after and it was under water , had to reseed half of it . everything else worked like a garden in early. may

[Partners]

Only 1 farm is still true zero tillers here. They have the latest and greatest BG ..and yes the only ones with yellow streaks in their fields.

[woodland]

Blue canola is not the biggest issue in this area.
Some that was seeded regular time and survived the hail
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Some that was re-seeded prior to the hail due to insect damage.
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Some that was re-seeded after the storm.
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Still looking better than these beans.
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Wheat is actually looking pretty good in this area apart from this winter stuff.
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Looking pretty dismal around here, but we're supposed to be oh so happy that SF3 got his "just in time" rain to "rescue" his lush crops.

That’s pretty brutal. The grass is green here but headed out early and short due to the heat and dryness. Half the poplars are brown from caterpillars stripping them clean. Things are ok for now but if the rain doesn’t show up soon then it’ll get interesting and not in a good way.

[SASKFARMER3]

Oh boho grass your pathetic.

I can’t win with a idiot like you. For 15 years I said we were mud. You bitched it can’t be that bad.

Got hailed out on 21 quarters can’t be 100%

Then the 1/10 is a big rain last year it’s a dust settler.

This year I post timely rains and you bitch.

Do you see a pattern.

I do you just can’t do any thing but bitch and hate. So crawl back under your rock.

[farmaholic]

....and then we have the floaters in the desert. Boy, I'd still rather midrow band then buy "smart" nitrogen and blow it on top and hope the **** it rains. No method seems to work 100% 100% of the time.

There are signs of too much money sometimes.

Re: midrow banders, definitely not the perfect system either but if you use a two inch spread opener on 10 inch spacing...for arguments sake that you probably never get the full two inch spread, ...is 4.5 inches away from the seed row really too far on a normal year?

This year I tried boosting the seed placed N....looks like it made a difference and I would like to add more but with a reasonable amount of P also being seed placed I am running into tank size compartment limitations. My limiting factor between fills will be the seed placed blend....we are only granular fert users.

You can now tell the wheat found the midrow....what a difference from May-long-weekend...notice I stopped bitching and moaning, whining and complaining about being dried out? I take that back..."lamenting reality" would be a more accurate description of that situation...no one should be accused of being negative relaying the cold hard facts.

Started spraying peas with fungicide today, some spots were hurt pretty bad by too much rain in a short period of time...oh well you can't spot spray with my technology...maybe Bayer's new Smart Spraying technology might have been an option but the affected areas are so irregular the controller probably would have had a nervous breakdown turning on and off sections and crashed...Smother Nature rules!!!!

[farmaholic]

On the canola...the last two years have been the shits getting canola established here. We needed a rain delay during seeding to replenish what those hot and dry hurricane winds rob from us in the wide open spaces.

Obviously the canola plants are doing ok here, establishment wasn't "good" but what is there is fine. At least the leaves aren't hanging from the stems like damp rags, and I hope they don't later either. Plants are bolting hard with some fields in the earliest stages of flowering.

Feeling thankful(grassy 👍)

[Guest]

our double shoot(1/2" from seed)(have gone up to 250 lbs dry) works every year which is impossible according to the bg experts,lol

[farmaholic]

our double shoot(1/2" from seed)(have gone up to 250 lbs dry) works every year which is impossible according to the bg experts,lol

Case, with all due respect....we farm in different soil zones. I was using a NH SD440(basically a Flexicoil 5000) with Dutch 3.5 inch paired row openers, paid close attention to air velocity and traveling speed and never had stellar establishment. I think the highest fert rate would have been 235 lbs.

In normal years we had better establishment with the Bourg than the SD440, in fact our neighbor seemed to get a better catch with his "Concord", although I don't know his fert rate. Our Bourg did a better job than his Flexicoil this year. Best looking nearby canola crop was seeded with a Seedmaster.

That magic elixir, moisture, can fix just about anything in too dry conditions,,,,, just like the same thing can be toxic in too large a dose!

[furrowtickler]

No rain .... no crop
Wet can be a bitch but even half is better than zero. Even if one has to fight it off with mud