In this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, Peter Johnson, resident agronomist for RealAgriculture and host of this weekly podcast, provides an update on harvest conditions in Ontario. He also answers a plethora of questions ranging from fertility and row spacing on wheat to planting grasses in waterways. Get an idea of some of the topics in the tabs below.
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The Highlights
Harvest Updates
Wheat Pete starts off this episode with another harvest update, covering
- Wheat
- One crop – 120bu/ac under seeded to single-cut red clover (and harvested again!)
- Soybeans
- Yields ranging from 21 to 70 bu/ac
- The potential causes of individual plants towering above the rest of the crop
- A whole lot of fields with green leaves and stems, but dry soybeans – What to do if you want to plant wheat?!
- Corn
- Yields coming in as high as 248bu/ac, some with 22% moisture.
Q & A
Some of the questions Wheat Pete covers in this episode include:
- Can I add water to dry beans, or aerate the bin on a foggy morning to dry to bring moisture levels up?
- Is Vitaflo as good as Dividend?
- I have very dry, hard clay ground and I can’t get the no-till drills in the ground. Should I wait to seed winter wheat?
- Would 10? row spacing be okay for wheat?
- Should I spread potash on winter wheat now, or in the spring?
- Is there any research to support humic acid or other biological seed treatments?
- Should I worry about next year’s red clover, if spraying Infinity this fall?
- Is it too late to seed perennial grasses for grassed waterways?[/tab]
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