What is the Condie Grow Site?
With advancements in plant breeding, there are more varieties to choose from than ever before—each with the promise of being the best in their class. The Condie Grow site was developed to help you sift through these new genetics, assisting in selecting varieties that will have the best return for your farm.
How it Works
The Condie Grow selection process is divided into two areas. The first part is our variety trials. This is where we take a look at all the newly registered varieties available to seed growers and compare them against each other. At Condie Seed, we select based on yield and other desirable traits that we think are a good fit for you and the growers in our area.
The second part of the Condie Grow selection process is the management trials. Condie’s management trial is where we take all the selected varieties that will be part of the Condie Seed portfolio and subject them to three different in-season management practices:
- PGR
- Topdressing
- PGR/Topdressing
The goal of the management site is to combat some of the less desirable characteristics of otherwise good varieties while learning about how they perform under more intensive management practices. As you move through this guide, under each one of the cereal varieties available, you will have the results of this data summarized into management practices to help assist in making your latest decisions.
More Data, Better Decisions
How to Use This Guide
Along the top of the guide, we have the key attributes of each variety to quickly highlight the desired traits you may be looking for in a new variety. Following that, we have a more in-depth description about the variety, its performance, and management in different seasonal conditions. This information was developed from a combination of the research done by governmental organizations and our own research through the Condie Seed GROW site. The Condie Seed GROW site has provided us with valuable information into the performance of these varieties and how to manage them.
At the bottom of each varietal description, you will see a Grow Management Map. These maps are to give you insight into how to manage your varieties in the field to increase yield, quality, and efficiency. There are three different moisture environments that these recommendations are based on:
- Low (0-9 inches of CAW)
- Medium (9-12 inches of CAW)
- High (12+ inches of crop available water)
It is important to note that moisture is determined by crop available water, not precipitation. Crop available water is the amount of water your crop has had access to across a determined time period. For these recommendations, it is to the time of the recommended application. For example, the PGR recommendation is from emergence to stem elongation. The best way to determine crop available water is to use a soil moisture probe, such as crop intelligence like we have here. Take the initial soil moisture at emergence and add precipitation throughout the season, and you will have the crop available water.
To determine whether you need to make this application is based on the color bar below the crop available water ranges. This will either be:
- Red (Not recommended)
- Yellow (Dependent)
- Green (Recommended)
