Canola and planters

[Guest]

looks good , wish us luck tonight

[furrowtickler]

looks good , wish us luck tonight

Watch for flea beetles if you get touched with frost . I don’t care what seed treatment, stressed damaged canola gets pounded if there is any kind of beetle pressure.
Sucks at this time of year , hope the best is all you can do .

[Guest]

+3 at 3:30, might be alright
Sun will be up in an hour

[sumdumguy]

2 degrees at 4:00

[Oliver88]

Last frost scare in the 14 day forecast.

[Guest]

+1 @ 5:30
how you making out in NW Sask , chuck? cold there also ?

[furrowtickler]

Beauty here this morning..


8 c showers west

[farmaholic]

WTF are you applying this a.m.?

[furrowtickler]

Lol just running the morning shift ....


Barley , will make far less stressful at harvest

[Misterjade9]

Low of 0 here this morning, but it was really foggy from 3 to just a half hour ago, grass extremely wet so that should help on the frost side of things.

So furrow, do you try and target about 180-190K seeds/ac, which is 4-5 plants per square foot? with 4.9TKW. What do you allow for mortality?

[furrowtickler]

Low of 0 here this morning, but it was really foggy from 3 to just a half hour ago, grass extremely wet so that should help on the frost side of things.

So furrow, do you try and target about 180-190K seeds/ac, which is 4-5 plants per square foot? with 4.9TKW. What do you allow for mortality?

Yup
We allow for 5% mortality . Been the average the past 3 years. That includes a bit of frost loss and beetle pressure. Only had to spray headlands on the first seeded fields . Canola generally grows fast enough not to worry . Not having any fertilizer burn issues helps a lot as well as no packing directly above the seed helps canola emerge relatively fast even in dry conditions or muddy wet areas

Just a few things we have noted the past 4 years

[poorboy]

How to fertilize with planter

Furrow on your planter what is your fertilizer program? You say fall NH3 ahead of canola, and I assume liquid phosphate with the seed, but what about your sulphur? Can you put all your phosphate needs down as liquid and have seed safety? I am trying to use 50+ lbs/ac of P2O5.

Seed rate on your peas at 120 lbs seems low. What spacing is your planter? On my farm the weeds seem much worse in thinner pea stands. You had been playing with liquid treflan in the pea seed row to help with root rot. Do you mix that in with the liquid phosphate? Are you inoculating the pea seed or adding the innoculant to the liquid starter.

The low seeding rate is very appealing. Makes a planter look like a great option compared to buying another airdrill. Much maintenance on a planter?