An Albertan and an Ontarian fly to The Rock… no, it’s not the start of a hilarious joke, it’s what really happened this week as RealAg’s Shaun Haney and Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson both were invited to present to the Newfoundland Federation of Agriculture.
Much fun was had (you can check out Wednesday’s RealAg Radio for a recording of their presentation!), but then it was back to work for Johnson, including getting this week’s episode of The Word ready for you, dear listener.
On today’s episode: How much sulphur do you need, really? Do plant leaves eat sugar? Why in-furrow phos pays, and more!
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Summary
- Greetings from Newfoundland!
- Huge thanks to Newfoundland Federation of Agriculture for the invite (Shaun Haney was there too)
- What’s the new, big-gain secret?
- Once in awhile, we make big gains, but usually, it’s incremental, base hits, not home runs
- Improve what you do, small gains
- Buckwheat baloney! Does it actually work? Maybe for wireworm, but not phosphorus
- One in 15 years is a plow year for decreasing stranded/stratified nutrients
- Plow and cover — nearly no negative impact
- Simon Cowell the farmer, not the celebrity, used no-till in the UK, but had stalled out yields, so he turned to plowing
- 4 per cent increase in soil OM!? Whoa whoa whoa
- Carbon saturation can happen
- Learnings from the Great Lakes YEN — mid-row banding of fertilizer, starter phos
- In-furrow phosphorus is the winner
- One-year only for a piece of land, can you use foliar fert only soybeans? Broadcast replacement value, because foliar won’t meet the needs
- How come foliar sugar doesn’t work on canola and wheat? Well, um, does foliar sugar even work on anything else? Plants make sugar, not use sugar
- Leaves don’t eat rocks (there’s no sugar in the air)
- Sulphur questions: 20 pounds of S on beans? Is that really the recommendation. You only need more than 10 if you’re prone to losing S
- Sand or extra early are likely the only time S on beans will pay
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