Wheat Pete’s Word, April 6: Get Out the Calculator — You’ve Got Homework

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In this week’s Word, Peter Johnson, resident agronomist for RealAgriculture, examines everything from weather impacts to phosphorous management. And yes, you do have some homework this week.

Have a question for Wheat Pete? Call 1-888-746-3311, send him a tweet (@wheatpete), or email him at [email protected].

Highlights:

    • 01:00 Flooding in Ontario. Erosion, erosion, erosion.
    • 01:57 Red squirrels into corn seed — anybody have a suggestion?
    • 02:12 Cover crops – there is more value in wheat in a rotation than all the good you can do with cover crops planted into corn and soybeans. “Cover crops are great, but rotation, rotation, rotation is where it’s at.”
    • 02:40 Corn stalks burn two years ago, soybeans were better there and now wheat is better there as well. How can that be? “Well,” says Johnson, “I really think that you can sometimes see short-term gain for long-term pain.” Mentioned video tweeted by Syngenta:

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