**This is as of Wednesday August 24th ** Late post Another week gone by and yet another storm! It seems like we are in a pattern that is being stubborn and just won’t change. On Monday late afternoon we moved our swathers down to the earlier seeded Legacy 6-row barley and started to swath. The […]
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We had a fairly major storm go through on Saturday night – nothing was in the forecast but around 6pm the storm started and hit virtually all our land. We ended up with between 24-75mm of rain, heavy wind, and some hail. The hail was concentrated to a few fields, with only one field that
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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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