My canola crop froze and now I have at least 1400 acres of canola to reseed, maybe more. It also rained a couple of inches onto already wet soil so I am in the middle of a seeding delay at the moment. Fortunately(or unfortunately?) I had not sprayed the canola yet for weeds. So currently I have volunteer wheat growing and a host of small annual broadleaf weeds as well in these fields. If I wait for the fields to dry up I will need to spray with glyphosate and then seed them and BTW all my wheat needs spraying probably at the same time! If I don't hit it with glyphosate before the Invigor comes up these weeds might become un-manageable. So kind of up against it as far as time goes since we are in June now. Also there is a fair bit of wheat straw on these fields so I am concerned about wet conditions and hair-pinning.
So I am wondering about putting a Valmar on a high-speed disc and broadcasting canola seed and working it in. All the fertilizer is applied already so that is not an issue. I need the weedkill and blackening the fields would dry and speed things up for crop development. Looking at either a Lemken Heliodor or a Landoll 7800 series(Similar to Degelman Pro-till). 35-40' units. Put that behind a track unit and go right through low spots and everything! It would beat any other piece of equipment to the field and by the time things have dried up to do my other field operations my canola would be seeded!
My main concern is seed depth. Has anyone broadcast canola in front of a high speed disc and what was your seed depth like? Was it consistent? How deep did you work the field? I have harrowed in canola before and it worked fairly well but that won't give me any weed kill at this stage.
Thanks for any useful input!
Planting canola with a high-speed disc???
So I am wondering about putting a Valmar on a high-speed disc and broadcasting canola seed and working it in. All the fertilizer is applied already so that is not an issue. I need the weedkill and blackening the fields would dry and speed things up for crop development. Looking at either a Lemken Heliodor or a Landoll 7800 series(Similar to Degelman Pro-till). 35-40' units. Put that behind a track unit and go right through low spots and everything! It would beat any other piece of equipment to the field and by the time things have dried up to do my other field operations my canola would be seeded!
My main concern is seed depth. Has anyone broadcast canola in front of a high speed disc and what was your seed depth like? Was it consistent? How deep did you work the field? I have harrowed in canola before and it worked fairly well but that won't give me any weed kill at this stage.
Thanks for any useful input!
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