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The biological marketplace seems to be expanding exponentially and Upstream Ag Insights had a good summary to this article link: https://mixingbowlhub.com/ag-biologicals-landscape-2023/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Many people are growing VB (Midge Tolerant) wheat now and this year it looks like it may be of value in areas where rains have come in June. Take a look a the provinces midge maps. https://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app68/listings/midge/midge_map.jsp  Big swings in crop acres in the June 28th Statistics Canada Report https://twitter.com/kannbwx/status/1674062144814317569?s=20  Alberta's winter cereals agronomy program has been canceled. I know I have learned a lot from its research and used its information with our customers. This will be a big loss for winter crops. Read more here.
We have talked to a few customers and agronomists who have mentioned field preparation was more important that they first thought. They noticed that a tillage with harrow packer pass allowed for better germination and more even crop. If the fall crop seeding is early enough it may make sense to spend time to make sure there is not heavy residue in spots from combines stopping, water up volunteer barley or hailed crop and make sure you can kill it before your fall crop is seeded or is up.  We have a new forage sorghum called GW-2120 available with good standability after frost and is very palatable:  KWS Serafino Hybrid Fall Rye - ready to ship AC Hazlet Traditional Fall Rye - ready to ship AAC Wildfire Winter Wheat - small amount ready to ship and new crop coming. Tadeus Fall Triticale New! - new crop coming Metzger Fall Triticale - new crop coming Barley for double cropping or cover crops Oats for double cropping or forage Imperial Seeds cover crop blends (Fall Grazer is a popular one). Please order well ahead of needing so we have it in place for you. https://www.imperialseed.com/production Call Blair Balog: Cell: 403-634-4349 (calls & text) Email: [email protected] Office: 403-739-2233  As seed companies learn more about fall rye use it seems 1 unit (1 million viable seeds per ac = 23 seeds target) is becoming the standard use rate. On tougher years it would allow for more loss before a crop is unfit and help tillering seeding September 10th onward in S AB or Sept 1 onward in other areas. If seeding late August 0.8 of a unit may still be ok as it will have time to tiller.  We took silage samples at the milk stage on June 23rd in the fall rye and winter triticale. In the milk stage cut Performer (2024 launch) showed well as did KWS Serafino (available now), see details below. We had reports of some customers Serafino irrigated silage yields coming in about 20-22 MT per ac in late June and they will be seeding oats behind it for forage. Our fall crop demo plots have hybrid fall rye, fall triticale and winter wheat varieties seeded. The hybrid rye was at 0.8 of a unit per ac (roughly 18 plants per square foot. The fall triticale and winter wheat was seeded at 40 plants target rate. Winter wheat will be taken at the dough stage in the coming weeks and all will also be take to grain yields this fall. Flag leaf stage forage results here This in not replicated or scientific data. It is side by side on small scale as we cut a 5'x10' spot from even spots in our yield trials and sent samples to Down to Earth Labs for moisture corrected results and basic nutrient comparisons. Hybrid Fall Rye Winter Wheat Winter Triticale Blair Balog: Cell: 403-634-4349 (calls & text) Office: 403-739-2233 Email: [email protected]    Peter Zeihan is an interesting person to follow on global market changes as he often talks about agriculture trends. This time it is on Ukraine's shipping problems: https://mailchi.mp/zeihan/5-eu-countries-ban-ukrainian-agriculture-export
LNID water users have had a tough season due to canal repair problems and are currently limited to 4.5": https://www.lnid.ca/news.php https://globalnews.ca/news/9766673/lethbridge-farmers-water-irrigation-crops/ EID has reduced to 12" allocation due to low river flows and inability to draw water https://www.eid.ca/ BRID is at full allocations https://www.brid.ca/files/Notices/WaterSupplyLetter-June2023.pdf  We have been growing AAC Chrome Yellow Peas for a number of years but this season we will be replacing them with AAC Carver due to better seed coat retention, earlier maturity and comparable yields. So a heads up to our AAC Chrome pea customers. We will also be launching the new CDC Hickie and AAC Beyond Yellow Peas this season as well as have 5000 bu of CDC Lewochko carried over.  Bacterial blight has been reported in some areas, details can be found here: report-of-bacterial-leaf-streak-on.html
The dry season may benefit that problem. The PCDMN also has reports on Rust, Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus and more if you click the home button on the link above. KWS Serafino Hybrid Fall Rye - ready to ship AC Hazlet Traditional Fall Rye - ready to ship AAC Wildfire Winter Wheat - small amount ready to ship and new crop coming. Tadeus Fall Triticale - new crop coming Metzger Fall Triticale - new crop coming Barley for double cropping or cover crops Oats for double cropping or forage Imperial Seeds cover crop blends (Fall Grazer is a popular one). Please order well ahead of needing so we have it in place for you. https://www.imperialseed.com/production Call Blair Balog: Cell: 403-634-4349 (calls & text) Email: [email protected] Office: 403-739-2233  June 22nd Blair will be speaking at Farming Smarter's cover crops tour June 22nd
https://www.farmingsmarter.com/advanced-nitrogen-management-cover-crops-tour June 22nd: Vauxhall and District Growing Project for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank Annual Pig Roast Fundraiser at 6pm at the Vauxhall Community Hall: Annual pig roast fundraiser July 11th: We will be at the Lethbridge College Research Farm field day on July 11th: https://give.lethbridgecollege.ca/event/2023-farm-field-day/e469279 July 25th: Plan to attend our Main Summer Tour Tuesday July 25th KWS Serafino Hybrid Fall Rye - July 15th early pickup discount - Grain and Forage! Take home your KWS Serafino Hybrid fall rye by July 15th for 5% off. Serafino has big yields and excellent stand ability with low ergot risk. Serafino Top Forage Last year KWS Serafino was our top yielding forage rye. This season it did well in our boot cut side x side (they all did well for tonnage) 2 weeks ago: https://www.stampseeds.com/forage-trials.html  2023 Stamp Seeds Fall Crop Yield Data Our fall crop demo plots have hybrid fall rye, fall triticale and winter wheat varieties seeded. The hybrid rye was at 0.8 of a unit per ac (roughly 18 plants per square foot. The fall triticale and winter wheat was seeded at 40 plants target rate. We took silage samples at the boot cut stage on hybrid rye on May 23 2023. We plan to cut at milk stage on hybrid rye and triticale and soft dough on winter wheat to foll This in not replicated or scientific data. It is side by side on small scale as we cut a 5'x10' spot from our yield trials and sent samples to Down to Earth Labs for moisture corrected results. Hybrid Fall Rye Winter Wheat Winter Triticale Blair Balog: Cell: 403-634-4349 (calls & text) Office: 403-739-2233 Email: [email protected]    |
AuthorsBlair Balog - Seed Specialist at Stamp Seeds Archives
March 2025
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