If you’ve never seen soybeans sprouted in the pod, this is the podcast post for you!
In this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, host Peter Johnson has some surprising (and wooly) solutions to using oats that made it to head, plus he’s got many thoughts on phosphate applications, and he wants everyone to invest in reflective tape for safety in the field and on the road.
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Summary
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- An attitude of gratitude
- Check out Mark Gasparotto at SWAC, he’ll teach you some things about the power of gratitude
- Thank you for being part of the Wheat Pete’s Word community
- Shout out to Jean Sullivan, president of Carp Fair this year. It happened last weekend, and takes 300 volunteers, over 60,000 people attended. Now that is connecting people with agriculture!
- Alvinston Fair has a pie auction. This year, the pie auction raised about $37,000 for the London’s Children Hospital Foundation
- Randy has a solution for oats that have headed out and that solution is sheep! Yes, livestock eating those oats that go out into head, that absolutely is a good way to deal with the residue
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Photo credit: Randy Brubacher - Pete’s brother Paisley was driving after dark on a side road and met a transport truck. Narrow Perth County roads and a foot of gravel on each side, and at a crossroads there was a tractor with two wagons crossing the road. A near miss!
- Should there be reflective tape on the side of wagons?
- When combining, reflective tape on the side of the wagon would help finding it in the dark too
- Laura Lindsay, soy and wheat specialist in Ohio. It’s been dry and they finally got rain. The soybeans were so over dry, but after a rain, the soybeans are germinating in the pod!
As an update, I am getting reports of soybean seeds sprouting. Pics/reports coming from several counties- Madison, Clark, Pickaway, Ross, Fayette, Miami @OSU_Agronomy @Ohiosoycouncil pic.twitter.com/MuVnXwnNOC
— Laura Lindsey (@StepUpSoy) October 1, 2024
- Woody says, Peter! Monarch butterflies feed on the nectar of flowers, only the caterpillars need milkweed
- The ag sustainability initiative in Ontario is going to have another intake from October 16 to 29, 2024. Go to the OSCIA website for more
- Agricorp now has rye (cereal rye/winter rye) coverage for production insurance
- The final wheat yields are in for 2024 crop…. 99.5 bushels per acre
- Ever since Joanna Follings has become the cereal specialist in the province of Ontario, wheat yields have just gone through the roof. Way to go, Joanna!
- Chasing the combine with the drill, but didn’t quite get done, so a third got planted later. That’s a planting date plot! That’s not a mistake. There are no mistakes in agriculture. There are only test plots — Ken Nixon
- Stake the plot and take notes and weigh it off
- Fall weed control requires the right product and use the right rate, as well. Know your weed spectrum and choose those approved for fall use; there are good options
- Chickweed sprayed with Infinity was disappointing — the problem is that Infinity or Infinity FX both in the fall are registered, but they’re not that great on chickweed. Use Refine or similar
- If you have Canada thistle, you have to spray either before you drill the wheat, or before the wheat gets up
- With more winter wheat, comes more annual grass pressure, or grass pressure in general
- Like fleabane, controlling some of these grasses, it might not look like you get better control when you spray in the fall, because you might see a few escapes next spring, but the yield impact will be so much less if you control it in the fall
- Slugs are jerks. Remember, mollusks not insects
- No-till makes slugs happy, because of more moisture and places to live and hide. They clip off the growing point
- Winter wheat has a below-ground growing point if planted/seeded, but you can get tremendous slug damage on the leaves that emerge just like corn. The big damage is when you either leave the seed on the surface, or when you have a crop that brings the growing point above the surface just as it emerges
- Phosphate on wheat, is there a difference?
- Winter wheat does not respond to potash, however, on corn, it’s a totally different situation, because corn responds to potash
- Can you put MAP with the cover crop seed or cereal rye? Yes, but there may be a downside, as we’re not 100% sure when it becomes available to the succeeding corn crop
- Every nutrient acts differently in the soil
- Base fertility matters
- Back-to-back soybeans and untreated wheat seed. Common bunt is on the seed, so as long as you use well-treated seed when you want to grow wheat as a crop, it will control the common bunt
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