Best practices for Peas

[greybeard]

Klause, might be worth your effort to shut the fertilizer off for a strip at the far end of the field.
Peas are definitely not a starter responsive crop.
The best time to add nutrients is on the previous crop.

[newguy]

On my peas last year they got hailed out about a month after seeding.They came back a bit but where I sprayed authority they did not come back near as good.

[furrowtickler]

In furrow liquid ortho phos gain between 6 and 8 bus/AC on 4 different strips for us last year . The rack seen similar results in their plots.
3.5 gal/AC

[furrowtickler]

We just finished making our liquid caddy for the liquid starter that has a liquid innoculant injection system so we can inoculate on the go .
Going to treat the peas in the yard with just vitaflo and ligno humate . Set up a conveyor out of the bin with a G3 - into a roiling drum to tumble peas to replace auger then into anouther belt conveyor into truck - no more augers for treating . Gave er a test run today , should work very well.

[Klause]

Greybeard we see a 20 bu bump from using fert...


Humalite has lots of plant health benefits and I think it saved our peas in those wet years.



We double inoculate because we still grow peas on Virgin pulse land and our rotation is 1 in 5 years

[JDGreen]

Have grown peas for 20 years. Always fertilized for first 6/7 years and then decided no fertilizer one year as rumor on the street was they didn't need any. Very disappointing crop that year. The following year left an Unfertilized strip on every field to confirm the previous years disappointment. That year was 2004 and fertilized peas ran 60-80 while unfertilized strips 50/55.. All plants need balanced fertility and I find it laughable how generically most assume pulses do not respond. Each to their own but before I would ever spout off that pulses need no fertilizer my first question would be "where is your soil test??"