Farmer talk

[underdog]

Yes...100bu/acre. An average canola crop for us would be around 80-85bu/acre. That year everything lined up just right - mainly the weather all summer was perfect. We're pretty small farmers and don't have much land - we get as much from it as possible!

What's your average wheat and barley yields? How much fertilizer do you put on each crop?

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[mathrulz]

What's your average wheat and barley yields? How much fertilizer do you put on each crop?

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Wheat usually goes around 90 and barley around 120. Normally put about 120 lbs of nitrogen and 80 of the blend in the spring time. Occasionally we will put more liquid on in June around spraying time if it looks like it will help.

 

[underdog]

Wheat usually goes around 90 and barley around 120. Normally put about 120 lbs of nitrogen and 80 of the blend in the spring time. Occasionally we will put more liquid on in June around spraying time if it looks like it will help.

Hmmm, must have richer land in northern Alberta.

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[mathrulz]

Hmmm, must have richer land in northern Alberta.

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A good part of it is just watching your losses. If you look at most fields late in the fall or early spring they are completely green in a lot of cases. For bigger farmers higher losses is maybe okay because they can't take the time since they have so much land to cover. Every rock sitting on top of the ground means a plant can't grow there also. For some fields this adds up to quite a bit actually.

I still believe cultivating fields in the fall or before seeding helps lots too. Lots of guys go into the stubble with the air drills, but everything just grows so patchy and uneven.

Most of our soil is #2 and some is #1.

 

[snopro]

A good part of it is just watching your losses. If you look at most fields late in the fall or early spring they are completely green in a lot of cases. For bigger farmers higher losses is maybe okay because they can't take the time since they have so much land to cover. Every rock sitting on top of the ground means a plant can't grow there also. For some fields this adds up to quite a bit actually.

I still believe cultivating fields in the fall or before seeding helps lots too. Lots of guys go into the stubble with the air drills, but everything just grows so patchy and uneven.

Most of our soil is #2 and some is #1.

Best we've seen down this way is 60 bu/acre. 100 is amazing. Doen't seem like a bunch of fertilizer for that kind of yield. Must have incredible soil is all I can say.

 

[underdog]

A good part of it is just watching your losses. If you look at most fields late in the fall or early spring they are completely green in a lot of cases. For bigger farmers higher losses is maybe okay because they can't take the time since they have so much land to cover. Every rock sitting on top of the ground means a plant can't grow there also. For some fields this adds up to quite a bit actually.

I still believe cultivating fields in the fall or before seeding helps lots too. Lots of guys go into the stubble with the air drills, but everything just grows so patchy and uneven.

Most of our soil is #2 and some is #1.

We always check our losses and lose hardly anything.
And we have only 2 fields with rocks in them.
Still never seen yields close to those. Not saying that it's not possible, or that you're wrong, just doesnt seem plausible in my mind.

 

[revbyu]

We had canola like that a couple years ago. All I can say is have fun with the swathing! Haha. We got over 100 bu/acre though so it paid off in the end I guess.

Wheat usually goes around 90 and barley around 120. Normally put about 120 lbs of nitrogen and 80 of the blend in the spring time. Occasionally we will put more liquid on in June around spraying time if it looks like it will help.

Wow those are amazing yeilds - wouldnt need many acres to fill those bins!!

 

[snopro]

Wow those are amazing yeilds - wouldnt need many acres to fill those bins!!

At $12-$13 a bushel thats over $60000 in a 5000 bu bin. Better have some good locks on those bins at that kinda pricing.Now that's a cash crop!!!

 

[rknight111]

How are the fields doing with all this daily rain we have with only a few days of sunshine?

And how does the livestock cope with all these mosquitoes?

 

[snopro]

How are the fields doing with all this daily rain we have with only a few days of sunshine?

And how does the livestock cope with all these mosquitoes?

It's perfect weather for Canola in full bloom but the cereals are getting later and starting to get some leaf diseases. I don't have any livestock Ron but I gotta believe they are as bothered with the bugs as we are.

 

[ferniesnow]

It's perfect weather for Canola in full bloom but the cereals are getting later and starting to get some leaf diseases. I don't have any livestock Ron but I gotta believe they are as bothered with the bugs as we are.

The bugs are starting out here........I had to kill two today!!!!!

Eat your hearts out, guys!!!

 

[underdog]

What ken said. And for the cattle, most farms have oilers that the cattle can walk under, and the oil works as a repellent against bugs.

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[snopro]

The bugs are starting out here........I had to kill two today!!!!!

Eat your hearts out, guys!!!

Up here Doug we catch em in nets and cook them over and open fire on skewers with onions, peppers and grape tomatoes.

 

[ferniesnow]

Up here Doug we catch em in nets and cook them over and open fire on skewers with onions, peppers and grape tomatoes.

ah, organic mosquitoes...should be a market for that:d:d:d

 

[zeebs]

How are the fields doing with all this daily rain we have with only a few days of sunshine?

And how does the livestock cope with all these mosquitoes?

Fields around here dont look too bad if they have tile. The beans are behind but the corn is just shooting tassels now. Fall applied anhydrous looks like crap but urea and 32% looks way better in the corn fields. About 10 days ago it didnt know how to do anything but rain......now its turned so extremely hot and with the moisture its very humid. Wet heat is uncomfortable for us but the crops handle it better than dry heat. Time to spray beans a 2nd time but we are gonna try and wait for about a week to 10 days so we can throw our insecticide in with the roundup and kill some soybean aphids

 

[Snohog]

Some fields round here are burtal, and we have been lighting smudges for the cows cause those little sucks are so think

 

[underdog]

Some fields round here are burtal, and we have been lighting smudges for the cows cause those little sucks are so think

K am I drunk, or is it you?

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[snopro]

K am I drunk, or is it you?

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This is what I'm thinking................ cause those little suckers are so thick. Whats your thoughts?:d

 

[byronkentgraham]

How are the fields doing with all this daily rain we have with only a few days of sunshine?

And how does the livestock cope with all these mosquitoes?

What ken said. And for the cattle, most farms have oilers that the cattle can walk under, and the oil works as a repellent against bugs.

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We don't use oilers anymore. We spray them with some stuff(i will post the name when i remember ) that soaks into their skin to repel bugs. really not as bad for cattle as you think. then again we only have 600 head in the pastures.

 

[underdog]

We don't use oilers anymore. We spray them with some stuff(i will post the name when i remember ) that soaks into their skin to repel bugs. really not as bad for cattle as you think. then again we only have 600 head in the pastures.

Ivomec?

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