Brian Newcombe

Bryan Adam’s at 65 can still rock, excellent concert tonight in Halifax

Starting corn harvest today, hoping the corn handled the drought a little better than the soybeans this year.

Last passes on 2025 soybean harvest. The only good thing about being in a drought never missed a day combining.

Ground pretty dry but wheat managed to finally germinate anyway

@farmerschneck We feel your pain here also

We'll see what the scale says but that looks like 21mt off 45ac. #ontag

1st 2 cobs on left out off of strip till field that had 9 way cover crop planted after wheat last Aug on medium soil type. Cob on right planted in conventional tilled lighter soils. Cover crops and strip till should pay returns with only 2 “ of rain this summer

@RickBieber81 @farmerschneck Cool mix, many lbs/ac of the cover is getting planted?

@farmerschneck Oats, Barley, Sunflowers, Safflowers, Flax, Radish, Turnips will all winter kill, but until then, they’ll help feed the soil’s diverse biological ecosystem the diverse Carbon molecules needed to keep the life within the soils robust.

Started seeding winter wheat today!

Wheat getting planted behind combine, might be a little dry

Starting to combine short drought soybeans, not very fun. So far averaging 30 + bushels

Starting to combine short drought soybeans, not very fun. So far averaging 30 + bushels

You know it is fall when the corn harvester comes out

@woody_VA Yes, corn silage is a different field

@NSnotiller Are you taking it to grain?

Corn may only be 4 feet tall from drought but surprisingly the corn ears are not to bad. 16 rows around X 34 kernels

Cover crop field and higher SOM showing benefits this year. 20 rows around X 30 long

@oatsgrower Old history of vegetable production and manure

@NSnotiller Wow, how did you get to 1700? Manured ground for years?

Final W Wheat trial result 2025. 75 lb/ac DAP in trench vs 0 DAP. Soil P level 1700 lb/ac, planted Sept 23. DAP 75 lb/ac 108.2 bu/ac. DAP 0 lb/ac 108.7 bu/ac. 75lb DAP Neg $43.00/ac. Not the result I expected but only 1 field & 1 year data

@oatsgrower Yes at 6” depth and no you shouldn’t have to add any P but some people still do?

@NSnotiller What depth of soil is the 1700 lb/ac level? At 6” that would equate to 850 ppm I believe which is insanely high is it not? You should never need to add any phos for your career.

How dry is it? Never been able to stick a measuring tape 3 feet into the ground in a crack 1.5” wide before! Only received 2” rain since June15th and 1/2” since Aug 1st.

@burnhamfarms The planter plots were 7.5” so took 2 passes with the planter so I was comparing the same spacing. Surprisingly my other drill vs Planter plots the 7.5” drilled plots have out yielded most of the 7.5” planter plots.

@NSnotiller Huh. But 15in could eliminate drill equipment costs, but planter also higher $/ac.

More 2025 W.Wheat trials results. Planter 1.5 Mil seed/ ac 104.2 Bu vs Planter 1,5 Mil seed/ac with 7 gal Compost extract in seed trench 103.8 bu so extract made no difference vs drill 1.5 mil/ ac with 50 lb/ac DAP 107.4 bu higher yield but subtract cost of DAP all 3 same net/ac

@N05Danny Not really both were pretty clean but it was a very dry July

@NSnotiller Did the 15inch planted wheat show more weed pressure at all?