Lodged Crop

[oldjim]

There's a lot of lodged wheat/durum crops in this area this year. I've recently drove the Moose Jaw/Regina/Weyburn corridor and it seems very widespread. Some of it could be due to heavy downpours of rain and wind but that's usually more localized. Of course some of the canary fields are flatter than piss on a plate and I noticed one or two canola fields had a lean to them. In amongst the flat wheat you'll come across one that's standing up fine. Maybe some sawfly but the stems aren't cut off, just pushed flat. One guy told me they were straight cutting durum at about 1.5 mph, they were going faster on lentils. A neighbour of mine was up in the Lipton country last weekend and reported quite a bit of lodging as well. How is it in other areas?

[furrowtickler]

Same all through NW Sask

Hessian Fly is a big problem here

[furrowtickler]

First picture is the larvae from the fly .
cuts plant off lower than sawfly
for some reason it’s an issue this year
many lodged areas that should not be . Those lodged areas are not from heavy crop
There is nothing there , or a bit of chicken feed .

[furrowtickler]

Yes slow and painful cutting cause it’s fluff and does not cut or feed well at all

[furrowtickler]

There are many areas in wheat here that lodged early and should not have . Now areas lodging more every day and should not be.
very significant yield loss , and it’s not all due to heat from July .

[furrowtickler]

Yield and quality down significantly in those areas

[fjlip]

All barley lodged twisted...EXCEPT the Fraser? is that a trait?

Most wheat 50% lodged, our Landmark maybe 5%. Semi solid stem?

All Canola leaning NE, 2' tall or less , was 4'.

[sumdumguy]

Most of the durum around here is somewhat lodged to very lodged but one field that I saw yesterday was twisted up and lodged. Weird, Must have been some strong twisters went through there.

[poorboy]

Fraser barley is flatter here than the churchill.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

As much fun as harvesting a lodged crop isn't, at least it means the yield is promising.

After a summer with no rain, and no storms, plus after using Manipulator on most of the wheat acres, our crops were still almost entirely standing before the heavy 1.65" at the end of August. It was relieving to finally see significant areas lodged from the rain. Mostly just leaning hard, some bounced back up somewhat. Lodging at this time of year when nearly ripe at least won't affect filling.

Can definitely see where the Manipulator was not applied.

I had big expectations of the Esma barley. It had areas lodged even before any rain, and a lot lodged after the rain. It isn't as short as I hoped. The heads are much shorter than any other 2 row I've grown. Probably from the extreme dry and hot weather. Yet the wheat heads this year are longer than I've ever seen.

[furrowtickler]

Not always is lodged crop because of yield.
This is a big issue here
a pocket here about 3 miles around and scattered in other fields there is nothing in the lodged areas basically
the stems have been deteriorated right off ground level

[furrowtickler]

Those stems were done before grain fill

[furrowtickler]

Found this extremely interesting
Ran a 28 ft Salford VRT demo around the edge of a few fields last fall

[helmsdale]

Found this extremely interesting
Ran a 28 ft Salford VRT demo around the edge of a few fields last fall

Is yield similar? Better?

In this neighborhood, typically anything vertical tilled in the fall is substantially less on account of zero snow catch. There's a place for it here, but outside rounds aint it.

[furrowtickler]

Is yield similar? Better?

In this neighborhood, typically anything vertical tilled in the fall is substantially less on account of zero snow catch. There's a place for it here, but outside rounds aint it.

Just swathed outside round and seen that this morning