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Do you have a field that is empty? wether excess water, hail, or forage removal there can be a few options for you.
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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)  Sometimes a filler forage crop is needed! More customers are choosing forage specific varieties for better quality and as good of tonnage or better versus flexible varieties. A smooth awn barley or triticale can be a nice fit as it can be baled or silaged and if seeding mid summer it can also be swath grazed in the fall. Surge Spring Triticale - triticale has drought tolerance due to their root system CDC Renegade - New! 2 row smooth awn (Maverick replacement)
We have had a good durum sales season and I think forecasts globally are for more acres. Because its a smaller acre crop, weather issues can make its prices volatile. An interesting account on X, I follow is https://twitter.com/spiga_dorata . They seem to capture market trends before you see them in publications. One wild card will be Turkey who in the past was a durum importer is now exporting durum mainly due to government policy allowing for less durum wheat in pasta. If that policy stays and they have a good crop it will impact prices.  Blair had success with his boot timing double crop trial this season and on a year like this even milk timing was very good for a customer who did that. I think it may be best to aim for mid June for the silage and planting. Here are all the details and pictures so you can replicate what we did: https://www.stampseeds.com/blog/double-cropping-what-is-better-oats-or-forage-sorghum Some farms are doing a boot cut forage and then seeding a grain barley crop in June and having success.  A newsletter from Sask Barley talks about what chitting is and how to minimize it: https://barleybin.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SB_BarleyBin-Spring-2024-v4-WEB_compressed.pdf or click below for the pdf:
Grain West Magazine has a great podcast and this episode has Don Tess talking with Rob McCaig, a 42-year veteran of the beer industry and a technical expert on malt about what makes great beer as it relates to farming and malting: https://grainswestpodcast.podbean.com/e/malt-magic-and-beautiful-beer/ I really enjoyed this episode.
Here is an interesting podcast talking about what licensed vs. unlicensed by the CGC means to us the farmer: https://what-the-futures.castos.com/episodes/what-is-a-licensed-grain-company-and-what-does-it-mean-for-farmers Contact the Canadian Grain Commission  We have a new hybrid mustard called AAC Guard. it will not produce seeds as long as it's not near a flowering brassica crop.
It will cover the ground about 20% faster versus regular mustard meaning it could produce 20% more glucosinolates = better disease and nematode control. It is a brown mustard so that can be a host for the sys nematode that impacts sugar beets. By not producing seed AAC Guard hybrid brown mustard would be less of a contaminant risk as a cover crop option. Some people are doing a forage crop or hybrid fall rye crop so there is time to seed this after prior to a potato crop. Here is an article on it: https://spudsmart.com/mustard-21-is-bringing-back-mustard-for-biofumigation/ |
AuthorsBlair Balog - Seed Specialist at Stamp Seeds Archives
June 2025
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