Henry: Lessons learned from soil probes this fall

Reading Time: 2 minutes Below is information from my farm at Dundurn, Sask., about 35 km south of Saskatoon, including the results of recent soil moisture probing. Soil: Dark brown loam, which holds 1.5 inches of available water per foot of moist (field capacity) soil. Completely recharged at seeding on May 13, 2013. Rain: May, 1.7 inches; June, 4.6 […] Read more

Aster yellows are suspected in the wheat at the top. The wheat below is infected with fusarium head blight. (Les Henry photo)

Wheat disease: Is it aster yellows or fusarium?

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s late in the growing season, but there is still time to scout wheat crops for disease. I first noticed serious disease in my midge-tolerant Goodeve wheat near Dundurn, Sask., not long after flowering. It took me a while to figure out what was going on; I now know that these diseases are widespread in […] Read more