Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[jazz]

I don’t think wise guy has been to the palliser because when it turns on you, ain’t no drill in the world gonna make a difference.

And scic can’t be farmed anymore. This isn’t 1985.

[Hamloc]

Not much happened in the last week. Showers has everyone waiting. Just canola left, lots of it standing.

My dad always told me it was better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Unfortunately I frequently fail to heed his advice. Have a good day everyone.

[westernvicki]

We are waiting for 1/4 that just was not ready! It needs the 6 below tonight.

Standing canola was super slow, hopefully after this wet weather and frost it will go.

[furrowtickler]

We are waiting for 1/4 that just was not ready! It needs the 6 below tonight.

Standing canola was super slow, hopefully after this wet weather and frost it will go.

Definitely the same story in higher rainfall areas and heavy canola crops . Lots were struggling with green material.
Yes the frost should help a lot and nicer weather next week .

[Mjolnir]

get your soils right with calcium to allow more oxygen into soils to support the biologicals and fungi life while giving them carbon (humic acid) and you have the beginnings of the rhizophagy cycle once you cut out the phosphorus. You are well on your way to axing 50 to 60% plus of all synthetic fertilizers and all fungicides/insecticides. add in pgr's with fulvic acid and you will be shocked at what you can achieve. we have been con'd in this life. History is nothing but a set of lies agreed apon.

Would you happen to have any more information that I could look at or could you elaborate more on what you are trying on your farm? Thanks in advance.

[Herc]

Maybe furrowtickler can weigh in on why he uses an overpriced seedmaster for his canola instead of a much cheaper 8910……Maybe clear up this it doesn’t matter what you use nonsense…..

[helmsdale]

Have about 23% left. Weeds have finally died in the 1 field of mustard that is on the home field. Other field is blooming again at the bottom, but frost tonight should put an end to that. Remaining durum second growth should also get nuked tonight, so we'll start back up tomorrow and take what little bit of pre-harvested durum is left, then onto mustard, then we can hunt and peck on the garbage durum and if seeds are into hard dough we should be able to take the late second growth as feed here in a week or so. Who knows, if it's soft dough it'll likely just get left as a snow catch.

I've been "harvesting" for 65 days now... I'll likely be at 80 by the time we're done with an avg of 3.125hr's/day/combine. I HATE harvests like this.

[helmach]

Would you happen to have any more information that I could look at or could you elaborate more on what you are trying on your farm? Thanks in advance.

Basically the simplest way to explain the
rhizophagy cycle is plants farming microbes.

How this works is endophytes (microbes/fungi) consume inorganic forms of metal ions which are in massive quantities in our soils already (do a soil sample of total amount of nutrient elements inorganic + organic to see) they simply are just unavailable for plants to uptake and utilize. One ex of this would be phosphorus and the massive tie up with cal in high ph and aluminum/manganese in lower ph soils. the nutrients didnt leave its still there in huge quantities, just tied up and bonded with these elements STILL in your soil. The amount of nutrients in your soils is staggering already you just can't utilize it and dont realize it.

This is where microbes who Feasted on inorganic forms of nutrients are lured to the root tips where the plants bait the microbes with sugars and organic acids (nutrients) and absorb them thro the root. The plant then breaks down these microbes with reactive oxygen degrading them destroying there cell wall causing them to start to leak the nutrients within the cell. this leaked nutrients (that was inorganic and not available to plants) is now absorbed and utilized by the plant.

The plant then realses and pushes these spent half dead microbes back out thro the fine root hairs to regrow there cell walls along with exudate (main ingredient in converting clay into top soil crumbs) and continue mining and feasting on inorganic forms of metal ions. the cycle then repeats thus plants farming microbes.

However plants who sence a synthetic band of phosphorus will completely abort the rhizophagy cycle since it takes work and energy for the plant to essentially farm these microbes.

In order to have a healthy microbe/fungi colonys in your soil you need oxygen. so that's where calcium comes in by adding porosity to soils thus allowing oxygen to enter. viable healthy soil is 30% air 30% water 35% soil and 5% plus organic matter. a major issue is anaerobic soils (compacted no air soil)
Humic acid is a post just on its own for its benifits but in the rhizophagy cycle it's simply a carbon source for microbes to feed and aids by adding porosity and water retention as well as adding structor to soils.

Plant growth hormones can trigger plants to do amazing things from auxins for root growth to cytokitins for cell division in branching flowering canola. Plant growth hormones like jasmonic acid (the plant signaling pathway) and Salicylic acid boost plants natural immunity and environmental stresses response. no need for ANY horrible fungicide or seed treatments that kill all microbes thus keeping us in the dirty cycle we are in

When you combine adding porosity to your soil adding a carbon source to feed microbes,a su Johnson composte to create and extract your microbes. you will grow the same yeild of crops on 40% of your fert bill. the problem is we have dead anaerobic soils. With this system your not chacing yeild records but I gaurentee you will put more money in your pocket with plants that take care of themselves.

This is very basic understanding I will link some lectures that do a much better job explaining

https://youtu.be/yMr3_tGeAu8?si=ihGVt72MTh7ragUo

https://youtu.be/dV9QcGs58l0?si=7zRGMThZmeDrK7d0

https://youtu.be/TP-_Rb8DYLQ?si=cMVokfAYyHW_D4Hp

[helmach]

top 2 plants are check vs bottom 2 in rhizophagy with pgrs. note the root growth difference and branching difference between the top 2 and bottom 2

[Guest]

Maybe furrowtickler can weigh in on why he uses an overpriced seedmaster for his canola instead of a much cheaper 8910……Maybe clear up this it doesn’t matter what you use nonsense…..

They really are an awesome machine , just not in everyone’s budget !