klause you never put fung on your peas.

[Hopperbin]

Yielded 55 without fung. Just lay down a bit. Is that possible?

[Hopperbin]

Cannot grow peas without fung

[Hopperbin]

Seed size is a function of fungicide... we didn't put any on this year. Fungicides keep plants green longer thus increase seed size. Dumb decision on my part oh well. 330 bucks an acre is Damn good. Yep without fung.

[Klause]

Acapella last year. Remember blairs was up here doing it???


Non this year. Dunno hey we decided that. Wish we did. That extra 5 to 10 bu would have been nice... then again 5 bu is breakeven.

[Hopperbin]

How would you explain 40 on neighbours with fung and 57 on yours without? I talk to them.

[Hopperbin]

But I did not see their crop

[Klause]

I dunno.... we apply 110 lbs of fert blend. ..... double inoculate. .. use seed treatment... how about we start with that.

[crusher]

I put headline on all of mine. Nothing visual on the check strips, not sure if the yield map will show anything. Only 4 bushels to pay for my treatment.

[furrowtickler]

Agree with Klause - there a lot of "little" things that make a big diff in peas
Using the cheapest innoculant , seed rates lees than 200 lbs/ac , high fan speed at seeding , seeding at more than 4 mph and no seed treatment can cut 20 bus off in a hurry on top of what he mentioned.
And yes Klause the shot of Priaxor would have gained you 5-10 bus and probably not gone flat at all.
Being carefull with pre emergent herbicide's is also a factor !!!

[furrowtickler]

Also pea seed at under 14 % mt instead of 16 can make a big diff - far less cracking when handing and seeding

[Klause]

Here's something else.... we seeded 12 acres of meadows at 214 lbs an acre on 24 inch spacing.... 4 inch spread.


The plants only grew 2 feet tall.... bushes..... but the pod count was out of this world

We harvested them yesterday and hauled them in.


976.729 bushels plus 10.178 bushels of splits.


15.1% moisture



We do not roll peas... Our soils crust and I really believe it damages the stem at soil surface level and let's disease in....



Btw our targets are 65 bu west of humboldt and 80 at St gregor....

[sumdumguy]

Klause, the breaking of the stem with rolling does concern me too. In a dry year, disease will not be so much of a problem in lentils and maybe same with peas. Compaction is also a problem. The guys with stones compact to push the stones into the ground, but in our soil, not necessary.

[nicolaas]

We always roll. Roll before emergence, sometimes after emergence. Our hilly fields make it a necessity, even with a flex d****r header. I find there is too much tagging if you do not roll. Put 50 pounds phos down with your 3 bus/acre peas plus granular inoculant, and you cannot help but get 80 bushels if you get adequate rain. We also use fungicide every year on peas. At the very least it is a lot less dusty combining. I always think 70% of a crops success is weather, unless you totally have a cluster seeding/spraying.
That is why some parts of the provinces look prosperous, while other parts not so much. Every province has areas that can be classified as gods country, and it is not because people of greater intelligence live there.

[rockpile]

I saw that too. What a bloody display of contempt for Parliamentary Procedure and total disregard for Canadians rights to know what's going on. Those were not tough questions and could have easily been answered in one sentence without giving out too much information. Scheer is about the weakest Speaker we ever had.
If I were the Opposition, I would boycott QP to make a statement that the Governing Party is not Governing, just campaigning. Mulcair was good; too bad he leads the NDP.

[sumdumguy]

There's an election coming soon.