Temperature

[Goodtime]

4 degrees yikes!

[farmaholic]

6 here @ 11:30. We are pretty much out of the woods here for frost damage. But a hard enough frost would blacken/darken a few flax seeds, then bye bye milling market unless there isn't much better around.

[farmaholic]

Maybe the clouds rolling in from the west will save people from frost.

[Goodtime]

I hope so lots of green canola around here yet....might as well have a whiskey I won't sleep anyway.

[Guest]

Does anyone monitor the Brix levels of their crops or know of anyone that does ?

[SASKFARMER3]

Frost for us now would just cause a headache in fall spraying. If it was a hard frost and because its dry all thistle foxtail etc would just die off and fall spraying would do jack shit.

For the crops in our area only green one is the greenfeed seeded June 25th.

[bucket]

Frost for us now would just cause a headache in fall spraying. If it was a hard frost and because its dry all thistle foxtail etc would just die off and fall spraying would do jack shit.

Retailers and Chem reps won't tell you that .....the lying ****ers. ...

[furrowtickler]

Does anyone monitor the Brix levels of their crops or know of anyone that does ?

Have not been monitoring full scale yet but just testing here and there before and after some foliars . Hopefully get right into it next year. You can definitely see where the higher the brix the higher the yields and of course much lower disease levels.
To me it’s one of the most important factors in crop development but virtually no one in Main stream Ag even knows much about it.

[hobbyfrmr]

Have not been monitoring full scale yet but just testing here and there before and after some foliars . Hopefully get right into it next year. You can definitely see where the higher the brix the higher the yields and of course much lower disease levels.
To me it’s one of the most important factors in crop development but virtually no one in Main stream Ag even knows much about it.

A healthy, high Brix crop doesn’t sell crop protection products very well.
Everybody knows you can’t grow a crop without fertilizer and protection products. The world would starve.

[bucket]

A healthy, high Brix crop doesn’t sell crop protection products very well.
Everybody knows you can’t grow a crop without fertilizer and protection products. The world would starve.

I will defer to my last post about retailers and chem reps...

[grassfarmer]

Does anyone monitor the Brix levels of their crops or know of anyone that does ?

We did quite a bit of testing on forages we were grazing, got a handle on it now so usually don't bother testing - can taste a bit of alfalfa and get an idea where it is. Pet peeve with Brix testing is where do you get a garlic press that doesn't break when you dry to squeeze moisture out of grass? I've broken about 6 of them and the wife gets mad when I steal hers!

[furrowtickler]

A healthy, high Brix crop doesn’t sell crop protection products very well.
Everybody knows you can’t grow a crop without fertilizer and protection products. The world would starve.

Yes that is very true , it is quite the gig they have going . They all want to sell high inputs and not one offers brix testing. Most don’t even know what it is.
So many get duped into high end fertility and fungicide and totally don’t know brix levels. They have a lot on the high input treadmill.

[SASKFARMER3]

Interesting where do I find more info

[bucket]

Thank you for that heads up on Brix testing....i learned something today...very interesting.

[bucket]

Interesting where do I find more info

answer: GOOGLE