Strange weeds, changing leaves, burndown options, and crop lodging are all hot topics this week on Wheat Pete’s Word.
As always, host Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson has some Agronomy Answers to your top questions this week, plus some insights into the value of fungicide in oats and wheat this season, and why scouting edible beans and soybeans is so critical this time of year.
Have a question you’d like Wheat Pete to address or some field results to send in? Agree/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
- No weather equity. No rain equity for sure
- Remnants of Debby absolutely drenched parts of Eastern Ontario
- Ohio is reporting 7 to 10 days ahead of average crop development even though planting date was average, too
- Niagara peninsula is experiencing something similar
- Colour change in some trees? Perennials seem to be ahead of schedule
- Moisture is key, but sunshine matters! Solar radiation is needed
- Wheat Pete’s Woes! He found waterhemp. Dun dun dun
- Catch Monday’s discussion on pollination on The Agronomists!
- Cooler weather during pollination is desired
- Variety trial data is in for some crops. Check out GoCereals.ca
- There are intensive trials and standard trials, so pay attention
- Oat trials with fungicide = standability (crown rust!)
- Have a look at the beans. A tough of white mould, you’ve got gold
- Excessive rain isn’t pushing white mould. Mould likes humidity and a lush canopy
- Cover crop questions: burndown before?
- A caller asks, kill covers in the fall? But I thought we were trying to keep roots alive!
- It all depends on what the spring brings
- Mo’ residue, mo’ problems
- Oats nearly in head by freeze up, eesh. No thanks
- Trade-offs must be considered
- Snails and slugs, oh my (see photo above)
- Red clover without slugs looks amazing! But at what cost
- Anthracnose in edible beans in two counties. Unsprayed fields. There is genetic resistance out there. Consideration for next year
- Headlands and tracks not lodged but the rest of the field, what’s the connection? Varietal switch, possibly. Headlands get compacted and root growth is restricted means less lodging
- What about tramlines or tramplines? Lower effective population (no neighbours!). Shorter crop, better standability
- Rabbit runs between treatments = 50% more heads in the outside rows, 3-4″ shorter too. No competition, bigger, thicker stems
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