Wheat exports, Group 1 resistant wheat, and gaining more minutes of sunshine – RealAgriculture

Spring has sprung — not less than meteorologically — says host of Wheat Pete’s Phrase, Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson.

On this very first spring 2022 episode, he tackles a plethora of matters, together with Soil Champion highlights, wheat exports, starter nitrogen, and extra!

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SUMMARY

• You simply must be impressed with the Ukrainian individuals. Our hearts exit to them, our prayers exit to them, and our ideas exit to them. Completely nobody ought to ever must undergo that.
• Transferring on to a extra optimistic be aware: over the month of March we are going to achieve one hour and 27 minutes of sunshine! Out west — 2 hours and seven minutes! That has to make you’re feeling good!
• Plant’22 is right here! Ryan Benjamins is tweeting out that he was out placing crimson clover on wheat in March
• Speak about loopy markets! Give it some thought: Russia and the Ukraine collectively are 30 per cent of the wheat that’s exported on the planet. And numerous that wheat goes to the Center East, Egypt, international locations like that. They’re dealing with meals shortages, as a result of there are not any exports popping out of that 30 per cent of wheat exports.
• Watch out, as a result of what the market giveth…the market taketh away and normally in very quick order. Sooner or later, when this will get settled out, chances are high — it’ll come crashing down.
• Will the Ukraine really get a crop planted in 2022? That’s the wild card that everybody is taking a look at proper now. That’s what’s driving issues loopy.
• For these within the livestock trade having to purchase this grain, the state of affairs isn’t almost as optimistic.
• There’s some pleasure surrounding Group 1 herbicide tolerant winter wheat. This got here out of Colorado State, again in 2017, however it’s taken this lengthy to actually get into the system. Why is it a giant deal? Properly, there’s plenty of areas of the world which have enormous points with grass strain in winter wheat, and our group one merchandise kill wheat. So to have group one resistance, you may go in, and you’ll take a budget grass out. It’s a giant deal.What is actually additionally essential about that is that it’s non GMO.
• How a lot urea can I put into my two-by-two starter band on my corn crop? The listener that requested usually makes use of 28 per cent…however as we all know, the fertilizer market proper now’s inflicting some very costly fertilizer costs. Bear in mind: anytime we put urea in that two-by-two band, we regularly speak about salt harm.
• The additional you progress from the row, the upper the nitrogen price you should utilize. However when you add phosphorus and potash to that, then the much less starter impact you get out of that phosphorus particularly, as a result of it takes the roots longer to get to that zone.
• If we’re on the market in mid-March, placing that first shot of nitrogen on actually questionable wheat, or attempting to carry it alongside, and it’s chilly sufficient…nitrogen stabilizers not often give a profit.
• Bear in mind: soil textures play into this large time, too. Soil and temperature!

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