Put your feet in the oven and your head in the freezer and you’ll have the perfect temperature on average. This week, with Ontario in the oven and Western Canada in the fridge, the extreme temperatures are creating challenges for farmers.
There are many questions about spraying in such hot conditions, winter crop harvest is also starting and the very promising prospect of a double bean crop is emerging.
In this episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, host Peter Johnson discusses these topics, shares some new research on nitrogen loss management, provides some disease updates, and offers agronomic answers to your questions.
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- Lastly, how is the planting going, is it too late now?
- Challenges of clay soil
- If I had known that Agricorp’s deadline would be extended, I might have timed my corn planting better.
- This heat is perfect for corn. Will this late planted crop be knee-high by July 1? It all depends on the calorie units (not the GDD).
- The corn planted later should germinate evenly, which is great news.
- Winter barley harvest began in Kent County yesterday. The average yield was
- Barley hates wet feet
- Leaves dying quickly? That’s a root problem in high humidity conditions.
- For sand, the southern tip of Bruce County is too dry.
- This heat will cause some of the flowering oats to wither.
- Armyworms in wheat crops arrive too late to cause significant damage
- But in the spring serial, Scout Scout Scout
- Leaf rust is occurring during the winter wheat harvest, but it is late and will not cause significant damage.
- Damage caused by birds: Uprooting plants, eating seeds, leaving leaves
- They cause a lot of injuries
- Thank you for listening to the end!
- Herbicides — Stop with the heat? Keep spraying! But avoid the heat of the day, avoid inversions, Engineia App
- Might be too hot for Group 4
- Contact herbicides can be very damaging in the heat of the day, so use a surfactant.
- Systemic herbicide? Morning application may be better.
- Wild carrot is a real headache and twice the concentration of glyphosate controls it pretty well, but 1x is ineffective.
- Follow the label
- A question about side dressing corn. I have applied a urea top dressing (not stabilized) to corn and have seen losses of 40 pounds per acre with an application of 130 pounds. Awesome!
- Nitrogen was stable with losses of less than 15 pounds per acre.
- 28 percent In this studyEven if it doesn’t stabilize, the loss is much smaller. Injection was the best. It’s not as effective as stabilizing 28%.
- Two bean crops! Keep it in season until July 1 (or even a full season this week!). Drop 3/4 of a maturing group each day after July 1, reducing yield by 1 bushel per day. Unless you’re a gambler, July 15 is your deadline.
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