It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and plenty of farmers have lots to be thankful for, including excellent soybean yields and lovely fall weather for wheat planting.
Peter Johnson, host of Wheat Pete’s Word, is thankful for you, dear listener, for sending in photos, questions, plot results and more, and on this week’s podcast hear some of what’s been coming in as feedback, questions, and critiques. In this episode, hear about P and K application in the fall, seed-placed phosphorus, snapping corn, hail and regrowth, and big beans.
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
- Canadian Thanksgiving is this weekend! We have so much to be thankful for
- Harvest is just incredibly awesome this year in Ontario, because it’s on the dry side so not causing compaction
- Mark is from Delaware and he achieved 96 bushels per acre in soybeans
- Ben in Norfolk County has some 80 bushels per acre on beans
- A little (white) mould is gold. A field with more white mould went 77 bushels per acre, no fungicide applied. What would have happened with a fungicide?
- Speaking of big yield, Great Lakes YEN winner hit 172 bushel per acre for wheat!
- First and second place were from Michigan but third place was from Ontario
- Dave from Lambton shares it’s a year with both the highest and lowest yields
- It’s not about winning, it’s about learnin’
- Row spacing and wheat yields discussed on Monday’s RealAg Radio
- Talked about tile drainage in the Peace region of Alberta, too
- Soil health assessment (SHAP) results
- Hannah sent a picture of hailed soybeans (see above). Ground is green with soybeans at the unifoliate stage!
- Get things out of the field as soon as you can
- Low moisture corn problems. If you want high moisture corn for livestock, better get rolling
- Corn moistures have absolutely crashed since late September
- Trying to get the wheat in the ground? Please be safe. Take a quick nap. Learn to say enough and rest, before an accident, not after
- Black layer for corn fell like a hammer this year, and that means there is almost no reserves in the stalk
- As long as it’s just the top breaking off above the cob, it will actually improve standability
- Fungicide trial on corn, tar spot and standability connection
- Eastern Ontario is a little different. Less tar spot, slower black layer, most likely means heavy kernel weights and more yield potential.
- Potash in the starter program on corn is crucial
- Phosphorus plots happen, especially on wheat. Send those photos
- No fertilizer capability on the drill? What to consider with phos and K, broadcast
- Don’t work it in
- What about volunteer beans in winter wheat?
- From a nutrient tie up standpoint, you want all the volunteer beans you can get. They’re going to release P and K as they break down, and those nutrients are going to be available, hopefully for the wheat crop as it breaks dormancy.
- Winter wheat seed going in, with moisture more than 2″ deep. Keep chasing?
- Everybody in Western Canada should have a stripper head and a disc drill. Ultra early seeding is the trifecta
- Keep the feedback coming and Happy Thanksgiving
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