Side by sides

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Going to need a miracle to be knee high by 4th of July! Corn and Soy are warm blooded crops... cool Augusts... just like growing Lentils... make maturing these crops with mature decent yields... a 1 year in 5 proposition... unless you believe in global warming... which fails to materialize in last half August/September much too often...[3 out of 5 years].

Not far off now ….


Definitely need more heat units but coming along

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There was quite the debate here last fall about spraying after harvest ……..

Sprayed


Not sprayed

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The same side by side fields last October

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Just pulled from surface

Anything we dug out is just fine

Not seeing much of a rhizosphere there
I can see remnants of the seed treatment colour so it appears you're applying a fungicide seed treatment therefore working against yourself compromising the mycorrhizal development. Have a look at this taken earlier today. Bare seed treated with multi species beneficial bacteria and fungi.

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Not seeing much of a rhizosphere there
I can see remnants of the seed treatment colour so it appears you're applying a fungicide seed treatment therefore working against yourself compromising the mycorrhizal development. Have a look at this taken earlier today. Bare seed treated with multi species beneficial bacteria and fungi.

We use 1/2 rate seed treatment with a Crop Aid seed treatment nutrient that includes kelp and bacteria as well . Don’t need to be lectured on seed treatments. I know , phasing them out when we can after we get the soil back in shape .
I will dig plants properly and show roots nice a washed too lol.
Nice root system there, is that on your farm ? What kind of soil ? How much moisture to date ?
Is that from you friends farm ?

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Fertilizer salts not friendly in cool dry springs …

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We use 1/2 rate seed treatment with a Crop Aid seed treatment nutrient that includes kelp and bacteria as well . Don’t need to be lectured on seed treatments. I know , phasing them out when we can after we get the soil back in shape .
I will dig plants properly and show roots nice a washed too lol.
Nice root system there, is that on your farm ? What kind of soil ? How much moisture to date ?
Is that from you friends farm ?

This is from a demonstration site east of Tambellup. Several 20 hectare plots with a few different things happening. Sown may 24th into good conditions, approx 50 mm in may and 65 mm rain in June.Few sprinkles in July with 5 to 10 mm coming tomorrow. Soil is a classic duplex in this region, gravelly loam with sandier areas over clay at variable depths. pH about 5.3 and 2% organic carbon.

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We use 1/2 rate seed treatment with a Crop Aid seed treatment nutrient that includes kelp and bacteria as well . Don’t need to be lectured on seed treatments. I know , phasing them out when we can after we get the soil back in shape .
I will dig plants properly and show roots nice a washed too lol.
Nice root system there, is that on your farm ? What kind of soil ? How much moisture to date ?
Is that from you friends farm ?

A very smart guy once pointed out that it took thousands of years for seed coats to evolve giving them the best chance to survive and reproduce.

But we can make that better by coating them with nice shiny colored polymers to keep whatever must be applied to greatly enhance survivability.

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Canola side by side , planter and drill . Moisture stress showing


Planter at 2.3 lbs left , drill at 5.5 lbs right , same variety.

Kinda hard to tell from pictures but the 5.5 lbs is now blasting top flowers and has smaller pods .

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Planter


Drill


We seen the same thing but much more exaggerated last year in side by sides
The lower seeding rate held on about 7-10 days longer in hot and dry conditions. The higher seeding rates topped out at 15 bus / ac and the planter 24 bus / ac under very dry conditions.
Although much better this year we are still below 6.5 in here for the most part . Last year was about 3.6 .

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Now close to 14 days with no more than 1/10
Stress is showing

Side by side , same variety
Left with planter at 2.2 lbs
Right with drill at 5.4 lbs