Friday Crop Report on a Thursday. Week 21

[helmsdale]

On another note, no harvest today... 50mph gusts, so there's no way I'll ever keep fluffy peas on the header bar!

Glad I've got sawfly *resistant* durum today. There'll be some that will go down. Always is, but my god, if you're growing CWRS that isn't a sawfly variety you are going to hate life something terrible after today. It's going to look like it took a 2ft snow event!

[fjlip]

Shame

Hate wind...plus humid and hot....awful out

[agstar77]

Fixing machinery in 40 deg humidex is the fun part of harvest.

[WiltonRanch]

Equipment companies may have some lean years. Workmanship and materials used has sure went to hell while prices increase. In past downturns farmers could keep older stuff going far easier than I suspect this newer plastic and electronics laden crap of today. Then the buggers charge you through the arse for parts or make things obsolete.

[fjlip]

Checking lodged twisted barley...dry and SOFT green kernels, small kernels, probably light, bushels already on the ground...sad situation.
Canola blanks small thin pods be SFA compared to 2023...all with 12" rain!

Wheat some small shriveled kernels... be light and 2-3 grade

[makar]

Checking lodged twisted barley...dry and SOFT green kernels, small kernels, probably light, bushels already on the ground...sad situation.
Canola blanks small thin pods be SFA compared to 2023...all with 12" rain!

Wheat some small shriveled kernels... be light and 2-3 grade

Any decent agronomist would have told you there is a spray for that.

[furrowtickler]

Got down to just above freezing here again , not an issue for the most part here but a lot of green crops north

[furrowtickler]

These lentils were still standing reasonable 3 days ago
the curled up now
maybe 15 in space not so good now ..

[bucket]

A guy can curse hawks beard but in 2016 that weed kept my lentils standing through showers and dews. You need a vacuum.

Have you tried cross seeding on 15?

[furrowtickler]

Did more adjusting , replaced some bolts from crop lifters , lifted skid shoes right up flat , took off contour buddy wheels on centre section and did some more fine tuning and got er very decent now

[sumdumguy]

Son of a Gun, sure would have been nice to have 3 inches July 26, right before exhibition.

[LEP]

These lentils were still standing reasonable 3 days ago
the curled up now
maybe 15 in space not so good now ..

We find even 12 in is too wide for lentils in our experience.

[sumdumguy]

We used to say a sprinkling of mustard gave the lentils some thing to hang onto. I n the beginning we used to swathe. The mustard used to keep the swath open and the swath dried out faster.

[Rareearth]

Bucket, are you still using Hawks beard for a harvest aid?

[bucket]

Bucket, are you still using Hawks beard for a harvest aid?

No, it just happened to be dumb luck in 2016. That was the year to grow soybeans around here. Got wet at lentils harvest. The hawksbeard was a pain to control that year as well. But some heavy dosing of chemical cleaned it up.

The hawksbeard did keep the lentils from falling over that year. Yield ws pretty good on the lentils. It was a good companion crop in that one event.