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Harvest highlights: High moisture contents and lodged crops

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Weather conditions have drastically slowed harvest, with lodging difficulties delaying the combines. A sliver of light is that overall winter barley yields concluded well this season.

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Soybean School: Variety choice and population keys to lodging prevention

Real Agriculture

When soybean plants lodge, bad things happen. “But when they start to get close to the ground, and really lean over, Read More When soybean plants lodge, bad things happen. . “But when they start to get close to the ground, and really lean over, Read More When soybean plants lodge, bad things happen.

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Wheat Pete’s Word, July 3: Lodged cereals, headland trouble, tar spot scouting, and canopy closure

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How much does lodging affect yield? Read More How much does lodging affect yield? It all depends on when the crop goes down. Evidence of that is showing up on Ontario yield monitors in the winter barley fields and will be coming to a wheat field near you in the coming week, says Peter Johnson, host of Wheat Pete’s Word.

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Lincs winter barley harvest lodged in wettest month of the year

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly July has been the wettest month since October last year for Lincolnshire grower Colin Chappell, who has battled harvest rainstorms including 92mm in 16 days, and lodged winter barley. We’ve been harvesting the winter barley for weeks now – cutting at every moment physically possible, and we’re still not finished.

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Farmer Focus: Wet harvest misery with half of wheat lodged

Farmers Weekly

In most fields, 50% has now lodged, which is very frustrating. At the moment, if the rain stopped and the crop was allowed to dry the combine would get underneath it […] The post Farmer Focus: Wet harvest misery with half of wheat lodged appeared first on Farmers Weekly Fields are getting soft even for travelling.

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Farmer Focus: Hoping for a lodge-free lentil harvest

Farmers Weekly

Mixed with a healthy crop of thistles […] The post Farmer Focus: Hoping for a lodge-free lentil harvest appeared first on Farmers Weekly Like last year, they were grown as a bi-crop with camelina, which is supposed to act as a pea-stick to hold them up for harvest.

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The Agronomists, Ep 155: Plant growth regulators with Jeremy Boychyn and Marijke Vanderlaan 

Real Agriculture

A plant growth regulator (PGR) can play a key role in helping growers manage the impact of lodging in spring and winter wheat crops. But growers have plenty of management decisions to consider to effectively use a PGR to reduce lodging, increase harvestability and protect and increase grain yield. Read More

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