The ideal seeding window for fall seeded crops seems to creep up on even the most prepared of farmers. That might be because, for some crops, the ideal window is incredibly early — like this week, in the case of winter canola for example.
That’s one hot topic in this week’s Wheat Pete’s Word podcast, and host Peter Johnson has some thoughts on establishing winter barley, winter wheat, and seed treatment must-dos and don’ts for broadcasting seed. Plus, catch a discussion on managing for test weight and why shifting the C:N ratio matters with cover crop oats!
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Summary
- People are incredible!
- Clipping weed seed heads in the clover
- Ontario to Chicago by bike. But why?
- Pull them velvetleaf plants, please. Thank you
- Congrats to Paul Hermans, international crop advisor of the year
- #plant25 is under way at Sarnia!
- Winter canola going in in great condition
- Planting date is hugely important for fall seeded crops, canola, rye, wheat, etc. The best winter canola yields come from end of August planting. That’s early!
- Pro Farmer tour suggests record corn and soy in the U.S.
- Wheat yields highly variable in the U.S. and we’re seeing it in the west, too
- Low quality, high protein in malt barley. Not good, friends
- France reporting 50 per cent of average yield. Because of cloud cover and excess moisture
- Test weight and management: is there a link?
- The biggest driver is genetics
- Stay green helps, too
- Tomato crop isn’t great in southern Ontario, late blight
- Average annual rainfall has already fallen in many parts of Ontario
- Get your OFCAF applications in! Soil testing, rotational grazing
- Edible bean and soybean deficiency symptoms showing up
- Uppermost leaves? Wet year = shallow-rooted crops run out of access to nutrients later in the season
- Winter barley tips: 10 days earlier than winter wheat for planting, 1.2 million seeds/acre, increase as it gets later. Heavy soil add 25 per cent
- Remember: treating farm-saved seed? Must use an insecticide treatment for aphids (BYDV)
- 50 pounds of N with the cover crop means 2x the biomass, changing the carbon to nitrogen ratio. Needs on at seeding of the cover crop
- Added N also suppresses rust
- If you’re growing oats for forage, you need 21 days of growth post-fungicide to get a ROI. That’s early for a cover crop!
- Broadcasting wheat into soybean questions. Early. Yellowing at the base of the plant
- Timothy needs to be on before leaf drop
- Treat that seed, unless you’re broadcasting, then DO NOT. Bunt is the risk
- Clover into wheat prior to harvest is worth trying
- Rye into standing corn for cobmeal. Success has been sporadic. Try it with the drone. Talked about this on Monday’s episode of The Agronomists
- Boron questions. Dale Cowan discusses them in this Corn School
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