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Super B freight is very tight right now and costly. I expect this to be a problem all winter and spring so if you think you may need to use custom trucking to pick up your seed you may want to so well ahead of needing it. 
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We can treat seed year round and do so when its above 0C to help with adhesion. Let us know if you can line up freight as we have a trucking company who does haul treated.  We have used peat inoculant on pulse seed treating as we ship to customers for a number of years and recently went to AGTIV for an up to 30 day product without the need or a polymer coating. They changed the name from AGTIV Rhizo ON SEED to AGTIV Fuel P. AGTIV Fuel P is still safe for up to 30 days on seed and does 40 ac of peas or faba beans and 60 ac of lentils. Its not sold per kg of seed like some but on acres covered. This makes it pretty economical. For example it works out to $8.75 per ac on peas or faba and $5.84 per ac on lentils. It sure is nice not having to deal with granular inoculant!  Precision Agriculture & AG Tech Showcase
Greg will be in Red Deer Nov 23-24 on the farmer panel at this event: https://www.farms.com/precision-agriculture/conferences/western-precision-ag-conference-2022/ Join Stamp Seeds for our Annual December Seed Update Thursday, December 1st, 2022 Location: Enchant Community Hall 127 Centre St, Enchant 9:00 am Refreshments 9:15 am BASF Seed Treatment Update - Bruce MacKinnon Grain Yield Trial Data - Greg Stamp SeedNet - Jeff Jackson What’s New in Corn Varieties - Blair Balog Alliance Seed - Karlene Yakemchuk Forage Yield Trial Data - Blair Balog SeCan - Mira van Burck Disease Trends & Bacterial Blight Information - Dr. Mike Harding - Plant Pathologist, Alberta Ag FP Genetics - Colette Prefontaine 2023 New Varieties & Markets - Greg Stamp Canterra Seeds - Brain Kennedy Market Outlook - Johnstons Grain 12:30 Lunch by Greta’s Kitchen RSVP: greg@stampseeds.com Prairie Cereals Summit Greg will be in Banff December 7-9th as we are an event sponsor: https://www.albertawheatbarley.com/events/prairie-cereals-summit?setcommission=alberta-wheat Western Canada Conference on Soil Health & Grazing Blair will have our booth in Edmonton on December 13, 14, & 15th at the Soil Health Conference. https://www.absoilgrazing.com/ Solid Stem Wheat for Sawfly Resistance There is only one solid stem HRSW on the market to fight sawfly right now is CDC Adamant VB. If you are interested we will have some available. If you grew durum on irrigation in 2022 you may have experienced bacterial blight. It has been around for a long time and comes and goes as a potential problem. It can show up in patches in fields and reduce yields. The very bottom of this email has a picture of it and a link to more info.
It's possible some varieties are more susceptible than others but it can be seed born, soil born, wind born. Until this time there was no seed test for it in Canada and even now it is not known exactly how best to test for it. 2020 Seed Labs does have a seed test now. Our plan for Certified durum seed is to use dryland seed lots as well as send in for testing. There is no set methodology for testing but the thought is that at some level it is not a problem and above that threshold it poses a risk. This could mean that more durum seed will be sold vs normal so talk to us sooner than later if you are an irrigated durum grower needing seed. Link to a tweet from the PCDMN about bacterial blight in cereals. Click here to see the thread. Stronghold - Industry standard with wide adaptation. Stands very well and has solid stem for sawfly on dryland while having very high yields on irrigation. Longer season with MS for FHB. Succeed VB - my favourite durum variety due to how early it is and top end yields being very good, It has very large seed size. It stands well, is a hollow stem and has midge resistance and is MS for FHB Donlow - The standard in FHB protection with a MS* rating for FHB & low DON accumulation. It's a hollow stem with top yields. Weyburn VB - New - it has a solid stem for sawfly resistance & midge resistance. MS for FHB and lodging rating is lower. GoldNet - This is a top yielding hollow stem durum with 1 year on the market. FHB rating is S.  AAC Hodge VB - New - Hodge VB was the highest yielding HRSW registered with great disease package, the breeder says it has some bacterial blight resistance. It stood like Brandon or Leroy VB and is about 6 cm taller vs Viewfield. It yielded 6% over Viewfield with similar protein in registration data. MR for FHB AAC Hockley - New - Hockley stands the best of any variety we have grown and is very short. It has 3% yield over Viewfield with better protein and is rated long season. MR for FHB and low Don accumulation. AAC Wheatland VB - Becoming the industry standard with great standability and protein at check levels CDC Adamant VB - Solid stem & SM1 gene for wheat midge AAC Brandon - Largest acreage by variety in Western Canada AAC LeRoy VB - Yield and disease package make this variety well rounded. Redberry - Very early season, grade retention, high protein but can lodge.  This season started off slow, with little to no moisture and cool temperatures. Corn still found its way to finish strong throughout Southern Alberta. Below is the trial data from a trial done east of Vauxhall, it was seeded May 7th,2022 and harvested on October 31st,2022. Each plot was 12 rows wide at 22 inch spacing for a total of 1.5 acres each plot. TH6072VT2P is a 72 day product that has a 2025 CHU rating.
Book your corn seed now! blair@stampseeds.com https://www.thunderseed.com/en-ca/seeds/th6072-vt2p/?lang=en-ca 
Book the new AAC Hockley or AAC Hodge VB HRSW's by Dec 16th and be entered to win a WhiteRock cooler from FP Genetics  Solid Stem Wheat for Sawfly Resistance There is only one solid stem HRSW on the market to fight sawfly right now is CDC Adamant VB. If you are interested we will have some available.  Clean Seed On Hand
AB Tofield 6 row smooth awn barley - top forage barley & also grain yields. Sirish - 2 row Barley - top yields & stand ability AAC Synergy 2 row malt barley - many are also using for feed CDC Arborg Oat ACC Awesome VB SWGP AAC Cirrus HWSW AAC Chrome yellow pea CDC Lewochko yellow pea - high Protein 219-16 faba bean Fabelle faba bean Sunray Spring Triticale - Cleaning Now Feed Barley Options Feed barley prices are good again this season If you need a 6 row smooth awn we had AB Tofield win our grain yield trial in 2021 and stood better vs AB Advantage and AB Cattlelac. Its a great option for forge or grain. Sirish wins for standability and top end yields with good response to fertility and fungicides. AAC Synergy 2 row malt barley is a great dryland option that has a large malt market, but many of our customers have been growing it for feed use as it is a good yielding barley. AB Hauge 2 row feed barley has been a good fit for dry areas and compete with CDC Austenson well.   Sunray spring triticale has been around for a few years but it sill continues to show well in traials and sell well for us. Irrigation or dryland we have have excellent results for grain and forage. 90% of our sales are for forage use. Sunray Triticale  Our first grain corn trial of 2022 has been harvested at Barnwell, Alberta. The plot was seeded May 5, 2022 and harvested October 26 2022. Each plot was 12 rows wide at 22 inch spacing, for a total of 1.26 acres. Thunder seed product did well overall! TH6278VT2P is a brand new 78 day corn at the 2225 CHU rating
More corn varieties here Book your corn seed now! blair@stampseeds.com https://www.thunderseed.com/en-ca/seeds/th6278-vt2p-2/ Thanks to CP Farms 
Harvest is mostly complete in the area, which means planning for the upcoming season has begun! When deciding what you want to grow for feed, a lot of factors can come into play. Quality, price, and of course overall tonnage. But available nutrients per MT does play a big part on your feed efficiency. In the picture below is the manure content of a product from Thunder Seeds called TH4076 HDRR. It is a high digestible corn that is designed to be able to be broken down by the animal more efficiently than others, like in the picture beside it. If you are looking to get the most out of your feed, this could be a product for you!
Clean Seed On Hand We recently cleaned our AB Tofield 6 row smooth awn barley, CDC Arborg oat, and ACC Awesome SWGP wheat. AAC Chrome & CDC Lewochko yellow pea are clean, and 219-16 faba bean is clean. We do have a little bit of carry over on some varieties also ready to go.  Spring Cereals Grain Yield Trials (& winter crop grain numbers) We have some information compiled for the spring cereals grain yield trials complied below. Some information will come later once falling number ect. is done. Barley, HRSW, SWSW, Durum, Hybrid Fall Rye, Winter Wheat were all in the trial. The field experienced more lodging vs. normal, due to being on the edge of some storms and high fertility. Usually we like to see some lodging as it helps differentiate varieties. This year it was almost excessive causing some impact on the plots. The plots also sat in the field a number of weeks longer than ideal due to the combines being busy on seed crops with no breaks like normal. This caused some rain on the mature crop, and bu weight to be lower, and we did look for seed or head drop but did not see much. What is the best wheat variety and what is the best barley variety? Wheatland VB, Hockley, and Hodge VB in top spots for CWRS, Succed VB & Stronghold topping the durum chart, Sadash VB on the SWSW, and Sirish on the barley charts. For barley this is pretty much opposite of last years results where the heat hurt some varieties more than others. Fertility: 300 lbs of 46-0-0 spread and worked in, 92 lbs of 11-52-0 with the seed. Over 200 lbs of N available to crop as was on faba bean stubble. Teraxxa F4 Seed Treat. Normal in crop herbicides. Manipulator PGR on all the plots at GS 32 average across the plots. (The barley would have been better to have Moddus) & applied FHB fungicide at heading. Larger pictures available here: https://www.stampseeds.com/grain-trials.html         Mustard Pricing Mustard seed pricing is ready and are again offering the 5% early pay discount on mustard right now. Call or text Blair for pricing - 403-634-4349 or blair@stampseeds.com With old crop mustard at record prices I anticipate contracting opportunity's to be good for the 2023 season. Kochia is a concern in mustard and Authority is registered ahead of yellow mustard. We have done Edge & Authorty+Glyphosate pre crop and then just group 1 grassy products in crop. New this season: Lumiderm is available on all types of mustard for flea beetles & cutworm protection (as long as ordered ahead of time) AAC Yellow 80 Yellow Mustard - composite hybrid (9% advantage) Andante Yellow Mustard Brown 18 Hybrid Brown Mustard - hybrid (5-40% advantage) Centennial Brown Mustard Cutlass Oriental Mustard Forge Oriental Mustard AC Vulcan Oriental Mustard Mustard Buyers: www.johnstonsgrain.com  AAC Yellow 80 Hybrid Composite Mustard on dryland at Enchant averaged 15 bu per ac (surprisingly good for how the crop looked and the land it was on)  Need a forage that grows well in different soil types? Alsike clover is relatively shallow rooted so it thrives in low-lying wet soils and can handle flooding for up to 6 weeks in early spring! Alsike will grow in lower PH (Acidic) soils better vs other clovers.  AGTIV Inoculants
We have focused on seed applied inoculants in the past few years but we also have a leading line up of granular inoculants available.
 Pricing ready for Canterra canola Canterra varieties have been showing very well the past few seasons (we grew some CS2600 CR-TF ourselves last season.) Our top picks for canola: CS 4000 LL - Liberty Link, mid season, VG lodging rating, straight cut potential with a straight cut rating of 6+ on the shatter scale (below), High yield potential at 107% of LL 234PC & 112.8% of P506ML CS 2300 RR - the consistent big yielder, swath only, great pricing. CS 3100 TF - New! - TruFlex technology, full season hybrid, VG lodging rating, straight cut and yield potential with a 7+ rating on the shatter scale (below) with clubroot & blackleg resistance CS 2800 CL - New! - top clearfield hybrid for the non GM canola premiums. Johnstons Grain & Viterra are looking for this type of canola. More canola options here The early order deadline is November 15th, 2022 and the pay by date is January 13th, 2023 (FCC financing through Canterra is also available that offers 0% interest until October 1, 2023!) Do you have a planter? Then these are all available with Pelta uniform seed coating to make each seed = size. Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (calls & text)  The margins on non GM canola look really good right now so if you can manage weeds you could make 20-25% more dollars per ac. Clearfield canola yields a little less vs non CL varieties but you can still be far ahead of other canola returns. In my charts below I used about 8% less yield and 18% less yield to compare $ per ac. Canterra has a great new CL canola called CS 2800 CL available now with early booking and pre pay price deadlines on now. Even calculating lower yields on the CL canola you could be 20-25% ahead on net returns. If you are worried about weed control, a fall pass of glyphosate now can help for your perennial weeds like thistle and dandelion, and also using Edge can suppress kochia and wild oats in season. Keep in mind you need to have the edge at the level of the weed seeds to work. We use a heavy harrow with a Valmar on it. Canterra also has FFC financing that allows for 0% until October 1 2023! Johnstons Grain & Viterra are looking for this type of canola.     We sampled our demo plot field with our spring cereals including soft wheats, barley, oats on it. We have taken silage samples for yield and also TDN and more at the medium dough timing for each of these spring crops. Below this chart we have the fall crops silage data from this same field. Blair Balog our Seed Specialist has compiled the spring crop forage information in a chart for you to make comparisons from variety to variety and crop type. This in not replicated or scientific data, just side by side on small scale as we cut a 3'x10' spot and sent a sample to Down to Earth Labs to get these results. The CDC Arborg Oat data was not in the plots, but was near by from our main field as our filler crop, so may not be as comparable. CDC Renegade Barley was at a lower use rate and farther away from the plots so also may not be directly comparable. We missed taking the AC Sadash VB sample. The plots were seeded April 28th, 2022 on irrigation and the wheats were seeded at 40 plants per square foot and the oats and barley at 30 plants (other than the CDC Renegade at about 20) Blair Balog: Cell: 403-634-4349 (calls & text) Office: 403-739-2233 Email: blair@stampseeds.com  Bigger images of these charts are located here https://www.stampseeds.com/forage-trials.html
For more detailed feed analysis, email blair@stampseeds.com  We are over 90% harvested now (ahead of normal) and about 40% done seeding fall crops with the big push on for our last 2 fall crop varieties.
Our spring crop forage trial data is back and included below. We just took our grain yield trials off for winter crop and spring crops so will need a week or two to get the grading and all of them into spreadsheets. Can I Seed Fall Crops Into Dry Soil? We have some dryland acres that we planted fall rye and it is very dry. We plan to seed into dry soil at 3/4 inch and wait for rain or snow to come in october to germinate it. There is some risk doing this but we feel that a fall crop can tolerate dry conditions the best with good net returns. Even if little moisture comes it grows slow at this point of the year so does not need a lot. Fall Crop Seeding Dates We often are asked how late can I seed fall crops? AFSC crop insurance had a deadline in the past but now don't (details here) but we still generally follow the recommended practices like before. (Although if the forecast looks good we will stretch these a little bit.) Recommended last seeding dates:
Main fall crops for sale AAC Wildfire winter wheat KWS Serafino hybrid fall rye
AC Hazlet fall rye Metzger fall triticale We can quote freight for you if needed. Fall Crop Net Returns Thanks to a few customers we regularly get comparisons of fall rye to winter wheat and generally we see about a $50-$100 per ac advantage to the hybrid fall rye due to increased yields. There is some ergot risk with the rye as rye is more prone to having ergot but that can be mitigated with even & early seeding. I have some net return charts lower in this email as well as a rye buyers list, a lot of rye has been going to the feed market. Cover Crops For Fall & Government Funding Below in this email, Blair has compiled some key points from the On Farm Climate Action Fund and how to qualify. Some people use traditional fall rye as a cover once hills are formed in potatoes by spreading on, others are seeding barley between their bean windrows and having good luck reducing erosion. Rye, Winter Wheat, Barley, Daikon Radish, Clovers, Italian Ryegrass and more is available. Let us help you plan a rotation/ cover that works for you and look below for some possible funding for seed. University of Lethbridge Career Fair Greg will be attending the U of L Career Fair this week on Thursday September 22nd so if you have family or friends attending tell them to stop in at our booth! Corn Yield Trials Blair has a number of grain and silage corn trials this season so expect to see trial data from him in a few weeks. December Seed Update We plan to host our fall seed update meeting December 1st with more details to follow. For any seed bookings you can call Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (calls & text) Office: 403-739-2233 Email: blair@stampseeds.com |
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