Wheat timing .... spraying

[sumdumguy]

Funny you say that, I often hear the same circus music when I think about how I farm! This must be some kind of common thought proces when farming does not go as planned, which it never does. The greater the deviation from the original plan, the louder and faster the circus music.

Furrow is correct, follow label instructions. Every has to make their living the way they know how. If you want to spray once or 10 times is entirely up to the farmer. Just keep spraying to control the weeds. Some of the lentil crops around here sure could have used a couple extra passes of spray. They should be asking long term lentil growers what they use. My older farm helper asked me to slow down so we could figure out what crop was in the field. Usually a person can identify a lentil crop. There is going to be kochia, wild oats, hawks beard and sow thistle for generations on those fields. Im curious about yeild reduction from competition. Probably a non issue. It is incredible, they make the organic guys look like complete amateurs. It must pay well because their weed bank just got a big deposit.

Long-term lentil growing will be a thing of the past soon with soybeans coming up the ranks. 28 years of lentils can definitely increase weed population, but lentils saved our sraca. Long live the lowly lentil! A few weeds ain't all bad. A smattering of wild mustard kept our heavy stands up and gave the lentils something to climb on.

Right now I am looking for a politician who can bring some Chinese investors to the farm so we can cover it with irrigation pivots? No more droughts for us! La-la-la-la

[hobbyfrmr]

Long-term lentil growing will be a thing of the past soon with soybeans coming up the ranks. 28 years of lentils can definitely increase weed population, but lentils saved our sraca. Long live the lowly lentil! A few weeds ain't all bad. A smattering of wild mustard kept our heavy stands up and gave the lentils something to climb on.

Right now I am looking for a politician who can bring some Chinese investors to the farm so we can cover it with irrigation pivots? No more droughts for us! La-la-la-la

Soooooo.....its ok for lentils if it looks like you made the attempt to spray because economically it saved a lot of farms. I can respect that.

What about the organic guy after 10 years that grows 650 net lbs/ acre hemp @ $1.75/ pound followed by 108 bu/acre milling oats on hemp stubble with 1.6% dockage contracted and sold for $7.25/ bushel or the irganic guy that grows 70 bu/acre malt barley selling direct to malt plant for $ 10.50/bushel fob farm?
"Around here" there is a pocket of organic farmers who do this. You should hear the ******* in the coffee shop. They dont believe it. I will never forget I was at a church tea one time, a table full of farmers. They were most agreeable that "you cant grow a crop without fertilizer and spray. You need to spray otherwise your just fertilizing the weeds."
That was the best summary about farming I ever heard. So awesome!!
Anybody gets their panties in a knot about weeds, come and talk to me about it I am cool with that. Klause is just thinking independantly. He unfortunately posted it on AV. Organic or not, Im pretty sure he is onto something, but it will take some independant thinking and planning. I still say add more fertilizer, one extra pass of gly, 2 fungicide to your canola on canola stubble next year and you will do just as well as all the racket about organic farming. That science is working all aound here. I have undisputedly the biggest and Most productive farms in Sask all around me. They are fricking excellent and the proof is in the bins/bags/elevators, land rent and purchase prices.
Stay the course, dont get distracted by a handful of deviants. If organic farming was so profitable everybody would be doing it.

[Klause]

If you think beans will grow where lentils do you're gonna learn a lesson real hard and real fast.


Even around Humboldt I doubt any of the new bean growers will have a 20 but crop. And lots of fields sub 10.

[Guest]

new bean grower beside us doesn't look like he will get seed back, 7 weeks here no rain , zero

[sumdumguy]

Some huge bean and lentil fields between Regina and Moose Jaw won't make chicken feed (or much else). Surprised there aren't any comments on the Stats Can report.