What is your time worth?
This week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word encourages everyone to slow down for two major reasons: one, time is fleeting and the years we get with our kids and our loved ones are short; and, two, working safe on the farm and the roads requires a stop, look, act approach.
But host Peter Johnson isn’t only waxing philosophical in this week’s Word — he’s also got advice on manure applications, managing clover, estimating corn yield impacts, and more!
Have a question you’d like Johnson to address or some yield results to send in? Disagree with something he’s said? Leave him a message at 1-888-746-3311, send him a tweet (@wheatpete), or email him at [email protected].
SUMMARY
- Safety, safety, safety — we’re not doing a great job in agriculture
- Please, be safe. Your health is the most important thing
- Think twice, act once. Slow down
- Time is ticking! Go to @SahilBloom and read about on how many hours we spend with family, friends, our children over our lifetime
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I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.
The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.
Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) November 12, 2022
- Don’t miss the time with your kids and your family
- Poster season and research meetings begins!
- GoSoy.ca should have trials up soon
- The YEN (Great Lakes club) results will go up Monday
- Corn field fires down south apparently moved north — in Grey and Bruce county saw a corn field fire each
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Corn field fire 2022 (supplied) - In Saskatchewan, it’s so dry a farmer tried rolling snow to get it in to the ground (sublimation may get around that, so may have been futile)
- Test weight of corn doesn’t matter to yield
- Does kernel weight translate to yield? It did in 2021
- Is it region dependent? Dale Cowan is looking in to it
- Corn piles are adding up
- Is it too much corn or are elevators stuffed? Ports are jammed (read/hear more here)
- Three producers said winter wheat out-yielded corn in 2022. Wow
- Yield loss from herbicide drift was twice as costly this year
- The increase in crop heat units in Ontario in a 10-year moving average since 1951
- Latest is to 2021. Over that time, 425 CHUs gained
- Smutty corn even in dry conditions — is there a toxin to worry about?
- Smut is a stress factor (maize mushrooms, you can eat it)
- Brown gold time! Manure questions: is it ok to leave manure on the surface
- In general, liquid on the surface in late fall and no incorporation = high risk of movement into waterways
- And it stinks = unhappy neighbours
- What about losses? It depends
- C:N ratio matters, pH matters and changes rate of loss
- Join us on Monday at 8 pm E to talk N loss prevention
- Oat, pea, radish cover crop plus dry beef manure, applied in August should be fine to not incorporate
- Spring dragline dairy manure in to corn? Unless it rains right away and soaks in, you’ll lose the N
- Cover crop red clover credit: is it different for worked vs sprayed? The time to grow is the difference, not how you terminate
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