When you consider managing crop residue breakdown, do you consider the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio of the residue? If not, it could be time to take action, as genetic developments in corn, for instance, has really made it considerably tougher for stalks to breakdown.

That’s only one dialogue on this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Phrase, however there are a lot extra. Hear now or obtain for later and listen to about frosts seeding vs. drilling clover, when potash does finest for corn, product residues in oats, and why proper now’s a candy time of yr.

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SUMMARY

• Maple syrup season is getting rolling in Ontario’s south — tapping this early IS early
• Delicate winter within the south, for certain, and additional south in to the states too. No N too early!
• Did wheat break dormancy?
• Large shot of N when wheat greens up is a necessity
• Get the planter rolling? Not so quick!
• It’s all about rainfall, and frost
• Environmental working group revealed a report on CCC (used on wheat, barley, and oats in some components of the world), i.e. Manipulator
• The dose makes the poison, and since we are able to discover it, does that make it a hazard?
• Detection ranges are a priority, nonetheless, as a public notion subject
• Crop Safety Community web site, seed therapies on corn and soy. Foliar to on-seed?
• Frost seeding clover: spin it on vs drilling
• There could be a bonus when you’re late however earlier is healthier and spin it on
• Drill can harm the wheat
• Alfalfa doesn’t thrive underneath wheat
• Hay crops love N
• How highly effective is your floor?
• Lodging dangers!
• When must you soil take a look at established hay floor? Be constant!
• Cardboard, sawdust, straw — C:N of cardboard 400:1, sawdust 200:1
• Wheat straw is mostly 80:1 as much as 150:1
• Corn stover now has a better ration 55:1 vs 70:1 now
• That’s as a result of fashionable hybrids are higher at taking nitrogen out of the stalk and placing it in to the grain
• Makes a distinction for bedding, however actually makes a distinction on corn on corn
• It’s going to take an additional 20 or 30 kilos of N to interrupt it down!
• High quality vs yield in corn
• Potash within the fall vs spring — which one issues extra?

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