Root Rot in Peas!

[boarderbloke]

2/3 of an inch last night, only half of what they forecast but I know we weren't under the red and yellow radar colours, so I'm sure others might have hit the forecast amounts.

The yellow spots in the pea fields are growing and growing, everyone is bitching, add on the rain last night and forecast again on the weekend means there's no turning this ship around for at least two weeks. How large are those yellow spots going to be by then. Peas are looking more and more to be a disaster this year. Like SF3 says, might be the last of the peas for some time.

Started the spring dry and hopeful, 8 inches later, cutting ruts again trying to finish up spraying and watching the crop disease away.

[bucket]

Yup pretty much the same here.

Peas had a good start and was willing to spend on them but it's past that now.

Gotta cut the losses.

[SASKFARMER3]

Watch all the elevators drop bids for fall because it's only a few areas with yellow peas! Yea it's there repa who are walking fields and seeing the loss add up! We have a 10 on peas will be available if a hail storm gets just one healthy half of peas!

[SASKFARMER3]

Peas can go to 50 a bushel next year I'm still not growing! Maybe at 75 but not 50.

[redleaf]

SASKFARMER3
JUN 22, 2016 | 09:00 14
Peas can go to 50 a bushel next year I'm still not growing! Maybe at 75 but not 50.

Spit a bit of coffee on the ipad when I read that.

[furrowtickler]

Pea crops west of here in the other rain belt are going down daily as well.
This big pea crop is in trouble .
There will be a few good areas but those areas are now getting dry and if they continue to miss rains they won't amount to much either.

[greybeard]

Sask pea production took off when Al Slinkard came up from the Palouse.
The Palouse is well suited to pea production as they have dependable rain till the end of June and dry after that for maturity and harvest.
Lentil and chickpea also developed in that area.
Nice description of thier development here:https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/story/2016/mar/mon/growing-pulses-in-the-palouse
If you ever have any time in-between around gate July early August take a short tour of the Palouse during their harvest. Many similarities to ours with enough variation to make it interesting.
Nice farmer drive.

[greybeard]

Forgot to lead of with the all important that you should drive thu the Palouse during late july harvest to see what clean desiese free peas look like.

[furrowtickler]

Greybeard- they use use heat ?or Viper?

[farmaholic]

I need to hear that everyone who didn't use Viper or Odyssey and has more than adequate moisture is having reduced issues with root rot. Give me the link to the Rack trials. Checked again today, some yellow patches beginning to appear with very few mycosphaerella symptoms. Some nodules nice and pink and some others(on land that was broke 50 years ago) aren't really doing their job....lots of nodules but white as a sheet of paper. Rain forecast for the weekend. With the pump primed with surface and atmospheric moisture, if a cold front hits it it will surely condense or squeeze it out as rain. Starting to see more flowers, D-Day is approaching and time to decide if I'm going to shit or get off the pot.
Maybe I'll shit and smoke some pot.....then I won't care, can laugh it off and eat some chips.