Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[furrowtickler]

We do similar but funny thing the frost year wheat germinated like a fool and so we cleaned up some 20000 bushels that we used for seed for 2003 and 2004 years but then were hit with frost in 2004 again that was a rough year. Cleaning Starbucks from last year will do 10000 bushels and have 5000 of Brandon and 5000 of Alida just in case.

We got hit hard as well in those years with frost after the bad droughts of 2001 and 2002
That was a bad 5 years for this area.
This past 5 have not been great either capped off by last years drought . There are other areas not far from here in tougher shape .
This year will be pivotal in many areas , more so than back then . These high prices are like a nightmare for some because the only 100% guaranteed thing is double or triple the expenses

Hopefully areas that have been felt a tough hand the past few years actually get a decent crop , or it will be devastating.
Crop insurance only helpful for so long
Just Solutions tits up , surprisingly no one be talking about that recently

[furrowtickler]

interesting , will the liquid phos just dribble from the blue pipes behind opener ? i also use liquid but not for the phos , that is dry and goes down with the seed , but i would like to go all liquid , i have bourgault openers that are suposed put the 28-0-0 about an inch and a half to the side , works realy good on wheat , do you also seed your conola one pass with that setup ? i have been a bit scared to put 100 lbs N and the sulphur that near the seed , also i dont think the fert is put deep enough seeding conola that way , so i band all the N and sulphur before seeding

[cropgrower]

that looks a neat setup , so the seed goes in two rows with the N deeper in the middle ? what spacing is your drill ? is that shank mounted packers i see too ? sorry for all the questions !

[furrowtickler]

that looks a neat setup , so the seed goes in two rows with the N deeper in the middle ? what spacing is your drill ? is that shank mounted packers i see too ? sorry for all the questions !

Yes paired row seed , 12 in space
N in centre
Yes shank mounted K Hart packers

[furrowtickler]

The shank mounted packers were fairly popular 20 years ago . Kinda old school but it works great for cereals, peas and canola if need be just have to go slow.
We like the liquid phos set up , allows us to put micros , innoculant and other in furrow liquid nutrient additives very effectively.
Products like Crop Aid , lingo hummates , and N fixing products like Envita ….

[furrowtickler]

Will be testing this in with Alpine . These types of biologicals are hopefully going to act like rhizobia in pulses . Alpine works great as a carrier due to very low salt content.
Time will tell how effective on cereals and canola .

[FarmJunkie]

Used the Envita last year on a few fields and results were promising for how dry it was. Will be doing more this year.

[Guest]

Spring is really coming on today!