Another reason to wait for herbicides on wheat!

Rain may have came but a great drying day on Saturday.  Another sure sign that spring is here, I found a group of giant ragweeds starting to emerge.  For those who have planted wheat in fields with history of GR now is not the time to make an application of 24d or Banvel.  As spring moves forward with some warm moist weather I believe that we will see more rags emerging in those darker soils that warm up first.  There are options to control this in wheat later when we go after the garlilc.

And were off!!!!

So as I promised I am going to commit time to keep you all up to date on the daily/weekly happenings around my territory.  Today the sun is shining and the ground is soaking up the moisture.  Wheat top dress is almost ready to begin, just waiting on the ground to cooperate.  As we begin to look at the wheat to determine staging and tiller growth we must take into consideration our goals for fields as far as yield, end use and productivity.  Today I still believe we should be placing our first shot of N down and begin plans for a second in crop application for maximum crop production.  If there were ever a year in which you wanted to evaluate fungicides, this is the year.  Commodity prices are good, and potential for disease and insect pressure could be there.  As I begin walking wheat fields over the weekend I will keep you up to date on my findings.
Stay tuned....