seeding plans 2009

[mustardman]

A comment on canary and yellow mustard. Both of them are good crops to grow Every year , and sell every Five. lol.
It sounds like you've grown birdseed enough to know its a grow and hold crop much like yellow mustard. Yellow mustard seems to have a big spike every seven years. Although if you could have got in $.39 contracts early this year that would have been worth signing.

[Jagfarms]

Mustardman what kind of openers do you have on your air seeder or air drill? Are you using a disk drill?
We are presently using a air drill since 1998 with a paired row stealth opener. The seed comes out the top in a 3 inch spread and the fertilizer is placed below. I guess we would be min till and not zero till. We are in rm 230 and 231. We might have to hold on to the canary seed for a year or two to get over 30 cents for it the way it is looking now.

[Jagfarms]

Mustardman what kind of rotation are you doing? Durum pulse durum?

[mustardman]

jagfarms you would still be considered zero till. We use flexi-coil 5000 with atomjet openers (sideband granular)
I just love these openers. We used stealth sideband openers when we first got the drill but after 3 years I went to atomjet. The stealth openers are not very Stealthy on heavy clay soils. They rip and tear it open and you could have a Major Wreck on a dry spring. The atomjet places seed in narrow band and fertilizer in narrow band beside on the same level. We have had excellent results and they have saved us alot of fuel as they are Much easier to pull than the stealth. They wear Extremely well,we have approx 20000 acres on them and I have just replaced ones behind tractor tires.

I like the Idea of disk drill but I still prefer the seeding job of a hoe drill on pulse stubble .It looks like the field will blow away before the crop comes thru with disk on gumbo, it leaves soil just like gunpowder in tire tracks especially on lentil stb.
However I would like to be able to use a stripper header, have 3ft durum straw and then seed lentils or peas into it. Lentils shine seeding into tall stubble. For now I will keep my hoe.
Crop rotation is mostly durum -pulse but I do a durum-pulse-durum-oilseed on some land. Canola isnt consistent on stubble in SW Sask and Yellow Mustard you can't seed where you have lots of wild mustard

[mustardman]

Jag did you get any moisture out of this system yesterday ?
We got some rain and small amount of wet snow. We were totally black before and the only snow was small amount in trees. It was looking too much like the end of April instead of the end of March - hope we get some more-
The atomjet openers I told you of are very popular around here now even the local co-op stocks them.
And as far as continuous cropping I am not the only one around here, probably 80-90% of the acres north of #32 hiway are continuous in schvclay soils and huge area in clay-loam west of town
Amyways talk to you again-

[Jagfarms]

Mustardman we did not get much moisture just a light mist. Things are looking pretty dry but we never lost a crop in March yet.
We got all new stealth openers we got in Jan to put on so we will have to stay with the stealth for a while. It was the first time we changed them and we had the drill since 1998 so it will have to wait till 2019 or till we get another drill until we change openers again.