Friday Crop Report week 15.

[furrowtickler]

Got 5 mm
looked like way more on radar just west of here but not sure

[SASKFARMER]

Not a spray day today but I’m caught up
so
i guess i relax.

[WiltonRanch]

Got 5 mm
looked like way more on radar just west of here but not sure

1/2” here. 1” to 4” 2 days before.

[furrowtickler]

1/2” here. 1” to 4” 2 days before.

Much for hail damage from Thursday? You said some bad in your area.

[WiltonRanch]

Much for hail damage from Thursday? You said some bad in your area.

North and east of me thousands of acres completely wiped out. Even close to home had a canola field beat bad but rest untouched. My kid and his cousins were out on the side by side several miles from their place when it hit. They took refuge under the side by side under a tree but got beat by golf ball size at times. Cousin had to rescue them.

[furrowtickler]

That was a nasty system

[goalieguy847]

Youre welcome! We concocted that up over in alberta with some drones and skunk piss

Sent it your way. ...

Definitely ordered the funnel cloud urine add on tho weird...

[TASFarms]

Going with a more biologically farm system. Not supposed to have any plant available phos for the first 2 weeks after seeding. Plants won’t colonize with fungi if there is plant available phos. Used 2 pounds of 8-60-01. I have high phos levels on all crop tissue tests this last week. Next year I’m going to cut out the 2#

[WiltonRanch]

Conventional wisdom says granular and even liquid phos you will only see about 35% available the year it is applied. The rest gets tied up in the soil and biological activity breaks it down over successive years. Gabe brown says there’s enough phosphorus already present in a lot of decent soils but you need a robust soil biology to make plant available and all kinds of plants to access the deep stuff. Possibly true but my bullshit meter starts to squeal. I don’t know honestly what to think either way. Definitely benefits to deep rooted alfalfa or sunflowers. Seen marginal ground perform out of a long term perennial forage once the moisture is recharged. Don’t think enough of us have enough years left in the game to see these things to come to fruition. Water limits.

[helmach]

Conventional wisdom says granular and even liquid phos you will only see about 35% available the year it is applied. The rest gets tied up in the soil and biological activity breaks it down over successive years. Gabe brown says there’s enough phosphorus already present in a lot of decent soils but you need a robust soil biology to make plant available and all kinds of plants to access the deep stuff. Possibly true but my bullshit meter starts to squeal. I don’t know honestly what to think either way. Definitely benefits to deep rooted alfalfa or sunflowers. Seen marginal ground perform out of a long term perennial forage once the moisture is recharged. Don’t think enough of us have enough years left in the game to see these things to come to fruition. Water limits.

how do you think redwood trees grow to be over 200 ft tall and 10 ft wide? the nutrients required to grow those trees is simply stagering. The Rhizophagy cycle. plants farming microbes. interesting stuff.

[url]https://youtu.be/yMr3_tGeAu8?si=-BsGyt-0mFhWMm06[/url]

[WiltonRanch]

how do you think redwood trees grow to be over 200 ft tall and 10 ft wide? the nutrients required to grow those trees is simply stagering. The Rhizophagy cycle. plants farming microbes. interesting stuff.

[url]https://youtu.be/yMr3_tGeAu8?si=-BsGyt-0mFhWMm06[/url]

I don’t doubt it. We know less about what we stand on than what we know about outer space. Though redwoods have centuries to make these symbiotic relationships with soil biology. Year to year in a farming system we don’t have that timeframe. It’s like what built our soils. It took 10000 years.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

And in nature, the redwood tree returns all of its nutrients back into the soil eventually. Closed loop system. Whereas agriculture removes a large portion of the nutrients.