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Northern Idaho | It finally quit the continuous rains here and the past few weeks have been pretty good for crops, a few hot days but mostly sunny and cool with a few rains. Still pretty chilly with temps in the 30s in the morning last weekend and lots of soil moisture so crops are progressing pretty slow. Upper elevation winter wheat is just heading out now, spring wheat has a ways to go before it heads so it will be a very late harvest even if it doesn't rain much later on. Lots of acres summer fallowed/ prevented planted here this spring and several people planted crops in June which is risky around here.
The first pic shows the stripe rust spores from walking in some wheat that is a susceptible variety and was not sprayed. (not our field) We sprayed all our wheat once with fungicide and some has now had a second application.
ORCF 102 winter wheat
Xerpha- this variety is so susceptible that even fungicide did not stop the rust completely
102 at our low elevation ground
Westbred 528 looking pretty good.
Soft white spring wheat, just recently finished spraying on the herbicide and fungicide.
Spring lentils- these dont like wet weather so it dried out a bit just in time.
Austrian winter peas like this cool weather for blooming but the wet spots look terrible.
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PICS- severe stripe rust + other crop pics
