Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[furrowtickler]

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…..

Every farm is different as is every area
This pocket can be extremely variable with a dry tendency more than not
The Seedmaster just made sense to us after running a planter and years of side by sides on our own farm .
The list of advantages for us far outweighed the price .
If we lived in a much wetter area , probably have a much different approach.
There are still several old outfits right around us that do just fine .
To be honest , this drill was almost a negative this year for us . Canola establishment was great and had a very lush early growth , but that lead it to running out of gas sooner than we hoped . With no subsoil and rains missing this area the lush early crops took a beating .
We did see some extremely good results where a few rains kept things going .

Was not sure how to reply to this without stepping into a hornets nest on here sometimes

[TASFarms]

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

What /how are you applying pgrs?
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[Guest]

We are sitting at 160 frost free days right now
Was a chance last night but none
Nothing in 2 week forecast
This is the 15th day without sunshine

[tubs]

We have lots of shatter losses in standing canola in the last 2 days up to 20 percent in the lighter areas of the fields.

[Guest]

We have lots of shatter losses in standing canola in the last 2 days up to 20 percent in the lighter areas of the fields.

Which brand if you don’t mind saying ?

[WiltonRanch]

Froze hard here finally. My kid has some standing oats in slough bottoms with 10% green crap so this hopefully fixes that. Usually after a good hard frost you get a good stretch of weather till autumn sets in. Some guys have a week or better left. Straight cut canola guys gotta be a patient lot. I couldn’t do it.

[Guest]

[QUOTE=wiseguy;575601]

If you didn’t delete 90% of your posts (very strange) I would bring up the one where you were gonna sue SCIC because they wouldn’t give you coverage because your seed chicken didn’t establish a crop
And I would also regurgitate one of the many where you were whining about no rain and no crop
In 2020 we lost every acre of canola to a hailstorm and I mean black summerfallow
In 2021 we grew half a crop of canola
SCIC was a godsend
I can’t help it if you fuked yourself with them
You are a strange character
First you accuse me of framing (farming I guess?) crop ins and then you say I don’t need it because of 52 BPA history
WTF is wrong with your thought process ?[/QUOTE

Looks like you claimed in 2020, 2021, and you must of had some excess moisture years 2010-2016 ?

claims reduce individual yield history

Whats the secret to having a 52 bu per acre yield history for that cheap of a premium ?

call me simple, strange, ****ed all you want but with that type of yield history over the years I don't see the need for scic !

I agree that premium is pretty darn good for the coverage , probably higher next year
I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I didn’t have it , could handle a wreck , but just don’t wanna
2020hail left us SFA on every acre of canola
2021 we grew about 2/3 of normal
The black summerfallow from hail paid off in that drought
I don’t begrudge the premium at all , helps me sleep

[LEP]

Froze hard here finally. My kid has some standing oats in slough bottoms with 10% green crap so this hopefully fixes that. Usually after a good hard frost you get a good stretch of weather till autumn sets in. Some guys have a week or better left. Straight cut canola guys gotta be a patient lot. I couldn’t do it.

The wind like the last couple days is why I won't swath unless an absolute last resort.

Invigor pod shatter have impressed us over the years. Very resilient.

But different areas are definitely different.

[helmach]

What /how are you applying pgrs?
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I use auxins/kinetin/Salicylic/jasmonic and fulvic acid those all get sprayed on at various diffrent plant growth stages for diffrent crops
alot of the pgrs are sourced from ez-gro and fulvic acid comes from omex

humic acid gets mixed with 28-0-0 and side banded 2x2 as well as treated on to seed with home aid spray nozzle treaters. Humic acid comes from top krop now since they bought the Riley alberta pit from canadian humiliate a few yrs back.

calcium is applied to soil in fall and is from gsr. calcium is expensive but so is not doing anything yr after yr

[BreadWinner]

Allot of information needed before I start serving my crops protein shakes. Cost summary of these products, side by side comparisons etc. We used to use many snake oil products but found there is no replacement for base nutrients and the cost to put these on top for 1 or 2 extra bushels wasn’t worth it.

[TASFarms]

Everyone knows the benefit on innoculating peas/lentils with one strain of bacteria. So why not use a balanced bacteria fungi ratio compost that has thousands of bacteria and fungi strains. The cost is less than granular pea/lentil innoculant.

[SASKFARMER]

Canola is testing 11.4

[shtferbrains]

Have you got lots of over dry to blend?

[jdg364]

Cnl combines a lot nicer at 11 than 5. Hope you get some warm turkey in the field

[helmach]

Allot of information needed before I start serving my crops protein shakes. Cost summary of these products, side by side comparisons etc. We used to use many snake oil products but found there is no replacement for base nutrients and the cost to put these on top for 1 or 2 extra bushels wasn’t worth it.

this is totally out of the box thinking and takes a diffrent mideset to approach, it is not the status quo and is not desined to add 1 or 2 more bu. that kind of thinking is what is holding us back from fixing our root problems whatever it may be soil related... and dysfunctional soils i assure you cost you much more money then you will ever relize but isntead we throw more inputs at the problem to mask it.

What if there is another way? Time to start asking diffrent questions? You mention base nutrients well how do you think red woods grow 300 ft tall? If you analyzed the nutrients required to grow those trees it would be simply staggering no? 300 ft worth of nitrogen phos zinc manganese, how do they do it and all without synthetic fertilzer??? That soil I do believe is nothing all that special. this is but one example out of many in nature where you see unbelievable sustained growth. What is going on there that isn't happening in our feilds? The answer I keep coming back to is life. We have dead inactive soils. Fungi and bacteria are in a toxic environment that does not suatain growth or life. it's no wonder the only thing that responds to crops yr to yr is synthetic fert... its the only thing you do have working in the soils.

this is a lifelong fix that is not for everyone, Im still learning everyday and implementing new ideas constantly but it is a beautiful journey and one that nature has already shown us the answers to our problems imo of course!