In 10 years of answering your questions, observing farm changes, and navigating agronomy, what has changed for Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson?
Well, he’s got a few more grey hairs and perhaps an extra wrinkle or two, but the fundamentals of growing high-yielding crops haven’t changed much from episode 1 to 500 of The Word, says Johnson.
While he kicks off this 500th episode with gratitude and reflection, Johnson gets right back in to answering the top questions of the week. This episode’s topics include: clover on snow, mixing fertilizer with seed, low fertility and beans, and why corn and canola aren’t friends in a crop rotation.
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].
For those curious, here is Episode 1 of the Word!
Summary
- 146 hours of Wheat Pete! That’s a lot of Pete
- Huge thank you to you, the listeners
- Penn State wheat yield winner credits help from The Word and Wheat School and Wheat Pete. Well done, Mark!
- Do tramlines make sense? In more ways than you think, yes
- Paul says, go look at 10 years ago and see what’s different….guess what? 90 per cent of the same things
- Basics and fundamentals
- New diseases, new insect pests
- Sulphur is a new thing
- February is time to kill the wheat crop
- Snorkels would be helpful through the ice. Dormant wheat doesn’t need much oxygen, but it does need some air
- Cold temps with no snow can kill wheat, but variety differences matter
- Drive on!
- Red clover on snow can work just fine (no N on snow, please) but not necessary
- Are you killing the seed before heading out? With ammonium sulfate
- Do the math, too. Sulphur in the gypsum is expensive
- 100 pounds of AMS offset the yield loss to cereal rye after corn? N with cereal rye in no-till?
- N as a replacement to tillage passes
- Soybeans on low fertility sandy loam. Broadcast? Spreading P and K will be worth it. Look at S too
- Residual N from soybeans? Nope, no way. There isn’t one
- Corn and canola aren’t friends. Phos can be the big issue
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