Category: Production

Field Pea harvest is on and there is an understandable emphasis on speed and throughput. Challenging weather at harvest can make this crop a nightmare to put through the combine. Most find it a finicky crop to harvest even when the weather cooperates. So we all want to get done fast but, in our haste,…

Here’s another item we featured two weeks ago that bears repeating. We now have some areas of the province where soybean fields have been showing wilting symptoms for at least the last two weeks and that always puts us on guard. Add to that the fact that soybean aphids have become a problem on some…

It might seem out of place to be talking about growth staging guides in August. Field pea harvest has started and some dry bean crops have already been undercut. But, there are a lot of important pre-harvest operational timings to consider in relation to a successful harvest and we get a a lot of questions…

We really thought we were done talking about soybean aphids for this year. Reports of aphids had been spotty at best and we had not seen a field close to being in trouble and requiring an insecticide pass. We thought the soybeans were going to win this race across the province, even though it was…

Soybeans are flowering and pod filling and we have had some reports of fields with increasing populations of soybean aphids although still under economic threshold levels. This means we need to keep scouting since our crop is most at risk while it’s building our yield. Soybeans are most vulnerable to yield loss during the R1…

When we published this information four weeks ago, we hadn’t heard of any grasshopper defoliation concerns. We were just being proactive. But now we are getting reports of a few fields that had high enough defoliation levels due to grasshopper feeding to warrant control measures. Being that our crops are pod filling, this is when…

We’re entering that time of year when soybean stem diseases become more noticeable which is also, not surprisingly, when they are having the greatest impact on yield. Let’s take a quick look at the diseases we are most concerned about right now in southern Manitoba. White Mold (Sclerotinia) White mould can cause two to five…

We haven’t received any reports of two-spotted spider mites thus far. And, the weather hasn’t been very hospitable towards them. But, we have seen some soybean fields showing early signs of drought stress these last two weeks and that always puts us on guard. One of the problems with two-spotted spider mites is that they…

All graphics are from Keep It Clean. Peas may not be accepted if treated with pre‑harvest glyphosate. Check with your grain buyer before applying.  The real risk is applying late-season herbicide too early. Applying too early leaves high residue concentrations in the seed and can cause yield and quality loss. At the late end of…