A week of unseasonably hot, dry weather has crops roaring to the finish line, which has those same crops exhibiting some interesting symptoms.
On this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, host Peter Johnson explains what the heck is happening to corn plants, why the combine needs to move quickly into the beans, and why nitrogen in the fall on wheat won’t solve a tiller problem. Plus, Johnson has a cautionary tale, a reminder for mental wellness, and a plug for (you guessed it!) wheat in rotation.
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Summary
- Keep calling your people with Wheat Pete’s 15
- Think twice, act once — use those emergency brakes!
- Yields aren’t living up to expectations if you happened to end up with too much water
- Small beans with this heat during finishing
- Don’t miss the silage window! Dry down is happening really fast, and tar spot may be speeding that up even more
- Cracked seed coats on edible beans
- Lose yield to over-dry beans!
- Wheat yield about 97 bu/ac, no record
- Red clover envy — bug-eyed-emoji (see above)
- How do you estimate the N release?
- Agronomy answers! Fall tillers yield more than spring tillers. Why not add N in the fall? It doesn’t work how you think
- Fall sulphur is just as good as spring sulphur south of here, but spring S is better here
- What about micronutrients?
- Phosphorus numbers matter more than anything for wheat
- Lodged beans and weed control
- Fleabane, harvest, tillage, seeding. Oy vey
- Fall weed control is all the rage. Check out The Agronomists here
- Seeding depth in dry conditions: it’s warm, don’t worry about two to 3″ down. Wheat School here
- Downforce dilemmas
- 100 pounds of MAP is usually the limit to an economical return
- The answer is plant wheat; what was the question?
- Shallow roots and big kernel demand is causing top-down die back
- Re-plant winter canola? Nope
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