Friday Crop report on a Thursday. Week 29.

[SASKFARMER]

Sprayed every field

[goalieguy847]

You guys have to spray for blackleg over there? Are we not growing resistant varieties? Rotation?
# confused

[fjlip]

Neighbor sprayed for canola diseases, made ZERO difference in yield.. Snake oil, cash cow.

Several compared straight cutting to swathing ...again ZERO difference in yield. But NO wind damage... till some pods dropped.

But weed patches and tougher straw = slower combining....everything works, do as we please.


We Saved the chem and tracking or plane charges. Combined days sooner.

[SASKFARMER]

A healthy plant all year gives you a return. Some years massive some not so much.

strait cut I like better than swath. Nice black seed and clean fields.

yes when it gets to grey it drops pods

[biglentil]

Sprayed half a field of Canola with Cotegra zero yield difference. Check I left on durum at fusariam timing zero yield difference. Lentils I didn't leave a check, seen too many wrecks with those.

Heard a fellow state a 15bus improvement on the fungicided Canola. It's a crap shoot.

[blackpowder]

Damn straight it's a crapshoot.
Remember a lot of different management zones prairie wide.

[jamesb]

Traditionally we spray all barley, almost all of the wheat and a part of the canola. This year we had a bunch of old Lance carried over from recent dry years and used it on canola. It was very visible where sprayed at harvest time. It was not a huge difference but was worth it in the canola. We also used a generic Quadris on the canola, kinda think we are going to go this was for a cheaper price option than the name brand products

[SASKFARMER]

Left a section on Canola and yes there is a difference.

Don't fool yourself.

Some years lots some not much.

Healthy plant makes yield.

Or roll the dice and take what you get.

[furrowtickler]

This was the first year in many where fungicide on canola paid … some
Split a half section , ended up around 5 bushel better where sprayed . Huge difference in low areas , minimal on average areas and nil on high spots … which is expected in areas that run out of moisture in July and only low areas have enough moisture to finish .

The low areas in the non sprayed field were full of disease.
agree 100 percent that you need healthy plant to reach yield potential. Most years here it’s lack of moisture that’s the limiting factor on 80% on the land not disease .
that’s where I think variable rate fungicide would save thousands and still give the same results in many areas in western Canada.
Or simply targeting susceptible areas only with drones could be very beneficial in many areas where moisture is the limiting factor not disease across the board . That goes for most crops actually in this area at least .
fungicides are not cheap , neither is trampling or arial spraying , timing and effectiveness is also a huge issue as well as time and depreciation on equipment.
But a healthy crop is needed to get reasonably decent returns .
Will be nice when genetics can eliminate / reduce fungicides while maintaining yield . Some canola and wheat varieties are close to that already .

[blackpowder]

Won't use the plane here again unless too wet.

[furrowtickler]

Won't use the plane here again unless too wet.

probably same here
I was not overly impressed with coverage where needed with helicopter spraying this year
More consistent with ground rig . Plane was very decent, but used on only selective fields

[fcr]

I used helicopter and plane.Happy with plane , not so much with helicopter however a few BTO here use them every year on canola and are happy.