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Syngenta has a great guide for Reglone Ion application timing in these crops.
When spraying anything close to harvest time please check with possible buyers, and Keep It Clean to protect our markets. A few people have had issues with leaves dying in cereals and the crop looking diseased when it was not.
People have tested for blights, disease, virus's and can't figure out what's going on. In the end it seems to be plant stress of some kind. A link to Dr. Brian Beres post Wheat Streak Mosaic Volunteer wheat is a concern in winter wheat crops as it can allow the transfer of virus's. Wheats a problem but other cereal crops are not impacted Alberta Fact Sheet Stripe Rust in Canada The Praire Crop Disease Monitoring Network is reporting stripe rust arriving in all provinces. https://prairiecropdisease.com/2024/07/12/stripe-rust-now-in-central-alberta-and-additional-reports-from-manitoba/ Keep in mind some varieties are rated better for this disease and some leaf tip necrosis can occur in some varieties in response to rust (browning of the leaf tip) Here is a comprehensive overview of rust risk https://prairiecropdisease.com/2024/07/17/mini-pcdmn-cereal-rust-risk-update-and-rust-impact-based-on-crop-growth-stage-and-variety-resistance-level-july-17-2024/ Bacterial Blight in Cereals Bacterial blight can impact cereals mid to late season. I have not heard too much this season regarding bacterial blight. Sask Wheat has a nice file showing what you are looking for: https://saskwheat.ca/wp-content/uploads/squarespace/pdf/ABBW-11249-BacteriaLeafStreak-Sheet_FA.pdf Kelly Tarkington and Mike Harding are featured in an article talking about the problem here Looking to sort out how much crop your sprayer is trampling vs hiring by air? A calculator is on Yorkton Aircraft's Website. Another reason to hire an airplane is immature seeds due to regrowth from a ground sprayer. On crops we plan to do multiple passes and or desiccate we may use a group sprayer as we will push the regrowth back down.
We have had a few questions about why you would use a fall triticale for forage? Fall triticale is ready about 1 week later vs fall rye so it can help you to spread silage workload. I also find you can seed the triticale later in the season vs hybrid rye allowing later planting in the fall while still suppressing weeds well in the spring. Tadeus also has great stand ability for higher fertility situations.
x.com/blairbalog/status/1816223773051215923 We will be launching two new hybrid rye varieties, we are on our second sales season of Tadeus fall triticale and also launching Coldfront winter wheat. We have prices on most fall crops now.
We now have tote bags of all 3 hybrid rye varieties in the warehouse, treated and ready to ship in 35 unit tote bags. Bulk seed is also ready. We also have winter wheat on hand, ready to ship. Hybrid Fall Rye SU Cossani - Grain type, drought tolerance and big grain yields New! SU Performer - Grain or forage, constant stable high yields with great winter hardinessNew! KWS Serafino - Grain or forage, low ergot risk, industry standard! Winter Wheat AAC Coldfront - Slightly earlier vs wildfire, 11% over check for yield, MR for FHB, VG winter survival, R to MR rust ratings New! AAC Wildfire - Industry standard, long season, MR to FHB, R to rust AAC Icefield - Hard White Winter Wheat (we do have buyers looking for farmers to grow this variety) JGL: [email protected] or Rogers Foods: [email protected] Winter Triticale: Tadeus - stands well, very early, tolerates later seeding, top yields, VG winter hardiness, large seeded New! More information about hybrid rye in general Contact Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (call or text) or [email protected] for pricing or for any questions! We had a customer give their feedback after taking off Tadeus for silage recently, and they were blown away! They averaged 21.9 MT/acre. This cut was done around the soft dough stage.
This variety has great standability, is shorter in stature (can help with standability) and produces massive heads that leads to great tonnage potential. Seed will be available again early August as we sold out last season! Contact Blair for more details: Contact Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (call or text) or [email protected] for pricing or for any questions! Do you have a field that is empty? wether excess water, hail, or forage removal there can be a few options for you.
With hybrid fall rye starting to come down in areas I had a customer reach out and tell me of their success this year. He took his at the boot stage for higher quality and was able to get 7 MT/ac at 35% DM. He plans to follow it with barley after for silage. Milk stage cuts will start to begin here right away which will be followed up by oats. After our fall crops tour we had a few people say they liked my "Perfect Rye Farmer" comments, and I was teasing Doug Stanko about being the perfect farmer (pictured) :)
Here are my perfect rye farmer highlights:
By doing the above = supress weeds better, less ergot, soil erosion protection, and more net returns! Blair took a boot stage cut on the hybrid fall rye off on May 28th,2024. The boot stage cut is where a producer will get the best quality out of this forage. KWS Serafino took this cut, with SU Cossani finishing up right behind it.
Next cut will be taken in the next week at the milk stage, which is where you see your best tonnage. Thanks to Saskatchewan Pulse Growers saskpulse.com/resources/ for these documents showing disease identification and some insect pests in peas, lentils, faba beans, chickpea pulse crops:
Thanks to Saskatchewan Pulse Growers saskpulse.com/resources/ for these documents showing herbicide injury and environmental stress in peas, lentils, faba beans pulse crops:
We had a report of a fall crop that looked good in the fall but poor and patchy in the spring making it look like winter kill. It was poor, but the culprit was wireworms - causing patchiness in the field. The seed was not treated with a seed treatment. You could ask, wouldn't the treatment wear off in the spring? Yes it would have, but I think what happened is that in the fall, the wireworms weakened the crop, and then the crop in the spring can't out grow them as they start feeding again. (A theory of how to solve the issue:) - using an insecticide seed treatment could help.) See the pics below: Blending cover crop species like clovers or buckwheat bring in other possibilities into cover crop blends. They can help fix nitrogen in the soil, help move phosphorus in the soil and can add some nutritional content to your grazing. When doing these species for cover crops, it is best to mix it in with a forage oat or barley to help fill in all the cracks in the field. If rotation allows it (non seed canola fields) there is also an opportunity to put in radishes that give off great plant matter and their root systems can help break up hard or compacted soils. Some pre-mixed blends we can get in are from Imperial Seed www.imperialseed.com/general-2 , custom blends are also possible as well as adding to our cereals/pulse seed.
Customers have contacted us for grazing blends this year to help take pressure off their pastures. They wanted a product like fall triticale (Tadeus) or fall rye (Hybrid fall rye/AC Hazlet) to be an option for their known ability to regrow, as they will only be in the vegetative stage this time of year. A benefit for this too, is the fall crops will overwinter and you will have grazing potential in the spring time or you can cut it for forage the following year.
They then wanted to add spring varieties like awnless spring triticale (Trical surge) or a smooth awn barley (CDC Renegade and AB Tofield) and forage peas to bump up plant matter and increase nutritional content. When adding in spring varieties you also give yourself the ability to silage if the year permits and gain the fall use/overwinter for early next spring use as well. I love plant growth regulators on cereals. In my mind they are a must use on irrigation but wet season there may be more regions that should consider using them because of good conditions.
Some will spray a PGR on the early side and tank mix with a slightly later in crop herbicide (it helps if you did a residual herbicide with your pre burn) or do a separate PGR pass at GS 32. We plan on doing 1.5 -2 apps of a PGR on some of our taller varieties on irrigation this season. (mix with herbicide and again at GS 32 or a little later.) Should you use a PGR on forges? Although all of my information is anecdotal, I feel like the reduced height goes into making thicker stems. Also if you can keep a crop standing longer you can fill the head better to give you more yield and also swath crop easier to silage more crop easier. https://www.grainews.ca/crops/application-timing-of-pgrs/ YouTube zoom recording on all crop lodging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFk9Y4YL4pg&t=952s Evan Shout talks to Dallas Simmonds from SK about growing the farm to a large size and then retiring from farming at age 42. I thought the interview offered insight to the stresses of farming, making decisions and building a team: https://youtu.be/uvJcEghKGzA?si=ML8XipTORJ-MX9r-
China has fast tracked gene edited wheat to help its own food security plans. This is good news for us as a supplier to China major global buyer views seed technology they way we do is a good thing. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3262353/china-fast-tracks-edited-wheat-genome-part-food-security-drive
Shane Thomas publishes a great setback. This one caught my eye as it talked about 2 things dear to me, seed & water.
This article was found by my wife Sarah.
Successful family businesses build out four rooms: the owner room, the board room, the management room, and the family room: https://hbr.org/2015/09/making-better-decisions-in-your-family-business This article talks about the future of chickpeas and the current market: https://www.producer.com/markets/chickpea-outlook-bright/
SU Cossani - Grain type, drought tolerance and big grain yields New!
SU Performer - Grain or forage, constant stable high yields with great winter hardinessNew! KWS Serafino - Grain or forage, low ergot risk, industry standard! Contact Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (call or text) or [email protected] for pricing or for any questions! Hybrid Fall Rye, Winter Triticale & Winter Wheat Tour Thursday, June 13th, 2023 - Enchant, AB Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Y3p3eZRC2Vb9Fmap8 1.5 Miles West & 1.5 Miles North of Enchant on RR 190 9:00 am. Refreshments 9:15 am Hybrid Fall Rye Agronomy & Yield Trial Plots:
Travel to Enchant Hall Rye Outlook - The Future of Rye as a Mainstream Crop:
Lunch at the Enchant Community Hall RSVP: [email protected] if possible The farm team finished seeding Wednesday night with the rain delays of the last 3 weeks. We started on April 12 so it was 48 days from start to complete, with shipping as usual which was steady for about 3 months. Crops look very good and a little bit of filling in misses, and low spot re-seeding is happening now. Blair took our boot stage forage cuts in our demo plots from the rye already and will follow up with a milk stage in a few weeks. Rye prices have really increased and we have a few buyers looking for rye if you had any. With the nice wet spring and decent prices I think there will be a lot of fall crops seeded this year. We will be launching a few new hybrid rye varieties, on our second sales season of Tadeus fall triticale and also launching Coldfront winter wheat. Below: SU Cossani Hybrid Fall Rye May 28th with Nathan Penner (seeded Sept 26th)
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