Mitchell Blyth

Central Manitoba agronomist with Crop Care Consulting. Always learning more about soil fertility and health with SoilOptix and boots on the ground.

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@Plantmore1 @BGagronomy Looks ConservaPak like. Rigid frame mounted fert knife and trailing parallel link seed knife

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Fert and wheat seed stripped off this field from the winds. Camera doesn’t pick it up but dirt is speckled white with fert granules

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Shows how much optimism there is for the future. It’s been bought and now moved thru two companies I consider to be “Where good things go to die”. It used to be really good but is now garbage.

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Wow sent a help email to scouting/fertility software I’ve used for years because they removed good parts of the software that has made it basically unusable. Explained I have to use competing software to get a usable report. Their response was to continue moving to competition.

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Well we got the chopped salad market cornered here

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I’ve found a lot of things while scouting fields from dolls, knives, and all kinds of metal but finding a actual coconut on the banks of the Assiniboine River in Manitoba definitely tops the “How did that get there” list

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Trying to strip till the garden this year, fall rye and mow between rows. Plus my first spuds and corn are out of the ground already.

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Can’t get canola seed out of the bag to survive a whiff of frost yet volunteers will overwinter

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I see they have taken my advice and made the 2025 pdf copy have clickable index pages. All I had to do this year was add a few bookmarks and the pdf works better than paper or any apps I’ve tried

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The 2025 Guide to Field Crop Protection is available for $10 at MASC Service Centres across Manitoba & can be accessed online at: https://t.co/4d835Bfbnu #MBAg

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Milwaukee pumpkin carving kit. @MilwaukeeTool

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Some @SoilOptix soil sampling under the northern lights

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@Plantmore1 We’ve had good success but needs to be a quality product properly processed. Tried a lot in the past that were junk or a PIA to use. Haven’t seen good results from raw product (Humalite/leonardite). Product pH is important, how it disperses in water and at what pH it breaks down

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@AllamFarmer Definitely VR it, pH can be highly variable, and map it with something that actually measures the causes of your pH. pH is the result of an imbalance of Ca, Mg, & K. Zones measure something different then composite samples after the fact, you need a grid or SoilOptix is best.

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@CraigBaird That a deer not an elk

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@rhofford It’s everywhere now, I only had a few places I found it a few years ago and it’s everywhere now. If you see kochia assume it’s RR

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@rhofford Generally a burnoff with a residual product then prism & sencor in crop for weeds. Long list for CPB seed treatment to start with then sometimes we have to go over top, don’t waste your time with Decis/matador.

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I find a lot of things in fields but the kitchen sink is a new one

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@ManchurCCC What dale said they usually start on perimeter or patches/hot spots. This was supposed to be sprayed last week but retail was too busy and didn’t get it done

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Flea beetles to no flea beetles 150 ft apart