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Managing The Loss; When To Plow?

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Allan in NE

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Don't quite know how to handle this one. :>(

Wheat took some hail, roughly 40%; some as high as 50%.

Just got a nice rain so am thinking of doing a quick, light discing to get a crop of fall hay off of the volunteer wheat that is undoubtably gonna be almost a solid carpet of green.

Okay fine. But, I don’t wanna take a chance of letting that Mosaic mite get started.

It’s gotta be hayed and plowed under under 2 weeks before fall wheat planting. Right?

This field is bordered on all sides by alfalfa and pasture; not adjacent to the winter wheat to be drilled in September.

Thanks,

Allan

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Or,

Can I just hay it and let that resultant stubble stand over winter? Will the haying operation itself stop the cycle?

Allan
 
Seems like when it rains it pours this year every where. I am guess'n I lost over a third of my tobacco last week in the 4.2" of rain we got over night. What is left will be a pain to deal with from now till January when the stalks are spread.

Don't know bout the mite, but some one will, good luck.

Dave
 
If the haying operation stops the cycle, get a different cycle and keep it greased. Be sure to keep it tight, they tend to shake loose some times
 
I would give it a light disking,let the wheat come up, burn it down in spring and no-till soybeans it it in April.The residue would be great in holding in moisture and holding weeds down.
 
The haying itself is not likely to stop the cycle. A long cold winter doesn't necessarily help either (we have those here in Manitoba). Those of us who have a concern with Wheat Stripe Mosaic deal with the problem by rotation. A sure fire way to have a problem here in Manitoba is to follow winter wheat with either winter wheat or spring wheat. If you must, then either a burnoff or a tillage pass would be required. Up here if we grow winter wheat it has to be grown into a standing stubble in order to trap enough snow for winter survival, so that pretty well eliminates the tillage method. Those that grow winter wheat on winter wheat successfully here do so with the help of a light fall roundup burnoff. Although I have seen patches in fields where wheat stripe mosaic took all, I have yet to see a field (like 80 acres) where it caused significant damage. However for us, some of the same agronomics that apply for control of other plant disease also apply to wsm.
 
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