Fungicide spraying started at the end of last week. We sprayed the earlier planted canola with Proline / Miravus Bold – will wait on the rest to see what the weather does before spraying any more canola. The first wheat and barley fields also just got started. This next week will be a big week […]
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We were fortunate to get some rain on Sunday night – it wasn’t uniform across the farm but we did get between 18-22mm in some of the driest areas, which are the south and central areas. Up north we missed most of it but we still got 8mm, which will help. Forecast is calling for
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Crops are advancing an uncharacteristically quick rate for this time of year. The heat, especially the warm overnight lows, plus decent moisture are putting us a few weeks ahead of normal for crop stage. Spraying has been a challenge with the heat and wind, compounded by the plants growing so quickly – but we finally
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Last week we had a few more rain events hit across the farm. Ended up 16-26mm up north and a few areas in the south, most of the south had 4-6mm and central areas between 6mm-20mm. Conditions are favorable right now, and with the very hot weather, which is unseasonably warm for this time of
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We were fortunate to get between 23-32mm of rain last week. You couldn’t script better timing for this rain – with seeding just finished on Sunday – and rain falling Wednesday night. This will help to get any of the seeds that may have been stranded in a dry layer germinated and growing. This will
