If commodity prices and the drought holds... a question.

[biglentil]

But you need 3 passes of glyphosate in the fallow season to keep that in check. But $30 per acre in 3 passes of burnoff versus $120 acre in fertilizer.

We have a nice little cover crop experiment coming this fall in our lentils. Second crop coming thick. I am letting it go.

Nice nodulation too, but thistles need to get a drink.

[furrowtickler]

The roundup needed for that will bankrupt a guy…..

Along with fuel and depreciation for equipment.

[LEP]

Along with fuel and depreciation for equipment.

Yes overhead is paid by fewer acres.

My neighbor has been a religious 50/50 guy. He now has group 9 and 4 resistant kochia. He’s even spraying liberty atleast one pass. In crop and chemfallow are a mess.

Tillage will likely be his next option.

[helmsdale]

Yes overhead is paid by fewer acres.

My neighbor has been a religious 50/50 guy. He now has group 9 and 4 resistant kochia. He’s even spraying liberty atleast one pass. In crop and chemfallow are a mess.

Tillage will likely be his next option.

Only a few 50/50 guys left here. It's getting unmanageable.

At $6 glypho, 3 to 4 passes with rotated tank mix partners is hitting $40-50/ac. Now if glypho is 10 and even if tank mixes dont increase, you're looking at $50-60.

Nearly all kochia are group 2, 4, 9 cross resistant here. I'm suspicious they're learning how to evade 14 and 15s as well. It wings them, but they're still making seed. That only lasts so long before they wont even be winged any more.

Kochia is a phucking disaster here! I probably harvested 160ac of them, and dumped the seeds in a slough.

[furrowtickler]

Only a few 50/50 guys left here. It's getting unmanageable.

At $6 glypho, 3 to 4 passes with rotated tank mix partners is hitting $40-50/ac. Now if glypho is 10 and even if tank mixes dont increase, you're looking at $50-60.

Nearly all kochia are group 2, 4, 9 cross resistant here. I'm suspicious they're learning how to evade 14 and 15s as well. It wings them, but they're still making seed. That only lasts so long before they wont even be winged any more.

Kochia is a phucking disaster here! I probably harvested 160ac of them, and dumped the seeds in a slough.

Is definitely an issue here now as well . Never had to deal with Kochia ever in this area
It started creeping in the past 2-3 years

[Sheepwheat]

What’s a kochia?

[Herc]

What’s a kochia?

If you have to ask, you can’t afford it….

[fjlip]

Summer fallow is a form of crop insurance that has worked in the past. People might have to start thinking out of the box.

Tried that last year, SMF yield less than on stubble. Cancel that idea.

[woodland]

What’s a kochia?

Think of tumbleweeds you’ll get the idea………😉

[TSIPP]

What’s a kochia?

We call it Romanian alfalfa, very high in protein and cows will eat it if bailed early enough, it is a type of tumble weed. In crop it usually grows in fairly high alkaline soil.