Pea yield estimation?

[freewheat]

My peas have really recovered. Waist to chest high in many places, and they just keep blooming, and blooming, and blooming. Any yield estimate calculations? I have not grown them much, and have never had a crop look like this the 5 other times I tried them.

Peas per plant times peas per pod, etc., etc.???

Thanks.

[Klause]

Roughly... peas per plant * plants a square foot.


Gives you total peas / ft.

Divide by 6.35

[freewheat]

Klause, I knew you would show up and save the day!!! Thanks!

[SASKFARMER3]

That's a total of 4.5 bushels a acre. Yikes that sucks. Oh hail and no recovery. I'm done with the little F$&kers.

[farmaholic]

Wow. How much vine before you get to the pods on the chest high plants? That's allot of plant material to handle. I hope they stay standing for you, long unharvested vines (especially if they're pasted to the ground) are a bitch to seed through the next spring. Greens or yellows?

[farmaholic]

...... maybe your only 4 feet tall?..... ;-) lol.

[freewheat]

There are a lot of pods, and they have been blooming for almost a month. And I am six foot zero. No headline, as when they were about to flower, they sucked, and were half dead. And yet they bloom. I am quite concerned about the amount of material/whether they will stand. And yes, I am concerned about maturity now. They better shut down in this "heat".

They are yellow meadows.

[wmoebis]

Got pic's?

[freewheat]

Got pics. Walk me thru. I am illiterate technologically... Prolly won't try til evening, but I will try...

[wmoebis]

LOL asking the wrong guy. Thought I was the only only one tech challenged.

These days that what my kids are for.

[Klause]

Ours are chest high in places... average is to my belly.

8 peas a pod on thr bottom 6 at the top still flowering like a bugger.

[Klause]

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[sumdumguy]

Nice stand! Buy bins.

[ajl]

A lot of the value of peas is in extending rotation for another year and some nitrogen left behind. Saw 5 bu ac last yr advantage to canola grown on pea stubble vs cereal stubble.

[Klause]

Last 4 years our peas average 54 bu...

Take that down to 50.

Average price has been around 7 over the 4 let's take that to 6.


50x6=300.

160 an ac inputs

140 an ac profit.

Higher than most crops we grow. Lower risk than canola.

Actually peas and oats make us more than wheat. Canola makes more than all on a good year but double the risk.


Sorry to go OT free wheat. .. email me I'll put the pics up for ya if you want