No sooner did I update the website last week, and that night we ended up with a good moisture event across the farm! I will have to try that again next time it starts to get dry…. We were fortunate to get between 14mm to 26mm across the farm – once again the central and […]
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The last week of July and we did get some warmer days finally. The crop has been maturing and in the south the maturing has been accelerated by lack of moisture. The mositure stress is starting to show up alot more now down south with the lack of rainfall we have had down there this
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With fungicide season now all complete – we have a couple weeks until we ramp up scouting for insects. The biggest threats this year will be diamond back moths, Bertha armyworm, and lygus bugs – all in canola. We haven’t had an outbreak of worms for at least 6 years. Typically you need southern wind
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Another week gone by, another wild week of weather. We were fortunate to once again receive some periodic showers across most of our land. There was a bigger system that moved through the area yesterday (Sunday) that had more significant rain, but went between our north and south land, only catching the land around our
Fungicide Nearing Completion / Wild Weather Continues Read More »
The weather pattern has continued over the past week – although we did finally get some better rains around our land in the Marysburg area (central) and last night had another storm go through that hit about half of our south land. Last weeks rain was a welcome relief, all in we had 40-60mm in
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