Peat Moss Barley Update. It's growing...it's growing!! 

A lot of us watching this with interest Tyson . Hope you get a fantastic crop . May need duals on the combine ?

Board casting seed looks like it worked great for you, hopefully the drilled in seed catches up, I'm sure it will. 👍🏻

Will be interesting to see how that field does. Broadcast with a light roller over it probably would of did that field really well.

This was a great field demonstration of the effect of seed depth. Broadcast seeding worked in your favor in part thanks to the rain. Your peat soil is highly decomposed, so less fluffy than sphagnum moss, but it could still use a pass with the roller to firm it up. With the press drill we also had to seed very shallow because it's a very light density material and the shoes or disks tend to sink way too deep, where the soil is very cold. But fortunately you had a good rain which really helped to warm the soil as it counters the insulation properties of peat.

Hey Tyson, thanks for bringing us back to the field. I always like doing crop Scouting. Your thought about running the Packers over it after you spread it was a brilliant idea. That’s why everybody has a packing wheel. If you could, please, in the future, just give us an idea of what you want to accomplish by cropping in either two more years or three more years . Once again, love the visit and glad to hear you got some rain

Man that peat dirt is different stuff isn’t it, never seen anything like it. We are Regina Plains dirt here so completely different. Always hear of guys farming peat and wondered what it was like. Now I know. Great vid , thanks

Great video Tyson

Good to hear that you are getting some good rains.

So wt your saying is, the fertilizer spreader is the new air seeder! Lol

Looks like good moisture back in the 70s it was so wet that we had a quarter of oats to do it was so wet couldn't pull any equipment so got harrows put duals on went fast with harrows to scratch top to dry a bit spread the oats with a half a hopper then harrowed it once had the best ever 110 bushel oats

I tried broadcasting some german millet thanks to your broadcasting episode, rolled it afterwards, dont have the quality soil you do but thought id give it a try!

Good day Tyson Boy that will be interesting to see how that all turns out Ths.

Crop looks like it will work out. Already getting Itchy thinking about the harvest dust.

Great Video!

Thanks..... hope they catch up with each other....

She looks pretty good so far👍

Can't stop raining in southern Ontario too! Sucks!

Most important thing is Go Oiler Go!!!!! Can they do it??

Looks like the barley got a good start

So far so good on the barley

Thanks for the crop update Tyson. Always appreciated.

THANKS!

Looks like the stuff you broadcast is off to a good start anyways. Hopefully it pulls through. Rain again here as well. Was happy to get it though. Lots of moisture underneath yet but the top was getting g dry. Should really make the canola pop up out of the ground now if we get some heat.

That will be all OK Tyson, good job

good thing you are getting some rain that peat Moss dries out quick

Good stuff

Just remember that with out the rain the air seeded would be ahead . Good to see you get the rain . When it doesn’t rain broadcasting can be a waste of of seed , at least hear in sandy soil.

Worked out good. Didn’t rain until all the seeding got done up there

Looks good

One year in 1980 it was wet so there was a guy seeding with air plane so he dropped conola on two quarters and about two days later got to harrow about better than half it was so wet and had one of my best crops every I bet you will have a good crop there

It was difficult enough when you seeded so I guess the rollers weren't even an option although it would have meant a world of difference, "it is what it is" 🙄. We had good oats on peat wth 1,5m / 5 foot tall much apreciated yellow straw for the dairy cows as a supplement to the silage. PH was a little low so it took some lime. Now it's all in grass hay, it's OK but a little hard to keep a clean stand, easily grows too much "boilogical diversity" 😉

This week will be the driest week here since April 26. I have received 13 inches of rain so far this spring. If it was snow we would have 12 feet.

Go Oilers

Wow

Hey Tyson! Looks very good with the rain..... maybe broadcast seeding with a follow up of harrows and roller is a cheaper, faster way to go?? Have a great day! 😀

U gonna have a good crop

A few years ago my neighbor tried broad casting wheat, He didn't turn out very good, But his conditions were different. Lots worse than yours.

I've never heard of peat moss barley

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Looked almost wet coming through Donnelly and Nampa on Sunday. Water starting to lay in the low spots.

Plant flax in that peat moss stuff might tighten the soil up a bit i dunno?

hello from grimshaw love your videos

just look at what got covered up and come up

Are you growing anything in the garden this year Tyson?

It will be fine. For some reason they will even out by fall.

Will that ground ever dry out, so you don't sink to your ankles? Even over a couple of years?

What are you doing with the dozer that caught fire.

no forest fire smoke either

How many acres do you have.

where be da worms?