It’s hurry up and wait for many anxiously planning silage harvest, edible bean burndowns, and fall fertility passes.
As September gets rolling, Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson encourages everyone to take a breath, call a friend to check in and use your Wheat Pete 15 for good. Got it? Good, then we move on to a few alerts, some advice on soil testing frequency, and a dig into fall fertility passes, especially with manure.
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- Wheat Pete’s 15 is a GOOD thing, welcome that call, make that call
- Harvest is upon us!
- Soybeans are close in some areas; it’s early
- Corn silage in the next 7 to 14 days. Caution! More than 50 per cent milk line. Too wet makes a mess
- 150 crop heat units (6 ish days) ahead of 10 year average
- Most of the heat was in May, no benefit to seeds that were still in the bag then
- At #plant25! Winter canola, winter barley, and winter wheat too
- Manage those early planted crops, please
- Feedback from Down Under
- Some crops have some great yields; it’s not all doom and gloom
- There is some hope for late blight on tomato
- Tours point to some drought, disease, poor yield potential
- New registered wheat lines! Updated info on GoCrops.ca
- Burn down on edible beans. Can’t use glyphosate for burn-down
- Reglone or Eragon. Merge increased with Eragon. Sunny, warm day please
- Tune in to the Agronomists for more! Monday, Sept 9, 8 pm E
- My corn is dying from tar spot on Sept 4. What do we do? Likely the time has passed to make up the loss
- It was perhaps a two-spray year, but we didn’t know, and not a slam dunk
- You can’t bring the leaves back to life
- Get scouting for fall armyworm
- Soil sampling funding? When do you sample? Every 3 years, for sure. Record conditions too (dry = less biological activity)
- Trends over time matter
- Seed counts vs canned info: use seed counts! Seeds per pound matters
- 1000 kernel weight can change based on growing conditions
- Setting up the drill for phos with the seed. Do we reduce seeding rate? Not necessarily
- 3000 gallons per acre of hog finishing manure ahead of winter barley. OUCH. Top growth and fall disease become a huge factor. Too much of a good thing
- Plant the barley, cut the rate of manure in half or less, or put it somewhere for corn
- Use a starter
- Dry beef manure ahead of triticale. No more N and S this fall!
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