We had a productive week of harvest – sitting at 12% overall with 68% of our Legacy Barley and 67% of our Synergy Barley off. The rest of the barley is mature enough to be harvested and put through the dryer – but we have been battling the weather. Had another 15-20mm across the farm […]
We started harvest early last week – a half section of 6-row legacy barley that was the first field we planted in the spring. It was one of the drier areas all through the growing season with less than 3 inches (75mm). We were pleasantly surprised- admittedly we had low expectations but the yield, although
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We did get some moisture – 9-10mm on our south land, which will help to fill those crops. Crops in the south look decent – we haven’t had an abundance of moisture, but with the cooler temperatures through late June and most of July – the plants have not been stressed. Up north it is
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We finished the remainder of the fungicide this past week. We ended up spraying the majority of our cereals and about 20% of our canola. Even though it has been trending drier, the plants were still wet around noon, which is usually a sign that the incidence of disease can be higher. The weather this
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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
