No-till notes - pea harvest

Yellow field pea producers in this region have finished their 2013 harvest which produced good results despite the challenges Mother Nature had in store for this growing season. Throughout my travels around the Panhandle looking at this year’s field pea crop I thought many first time field pea growers did an outstanding job of producing their first field pea crop. There will be a learning curve this first year and I expect any production problems that occurred will be corrected next spring.

Yields around the Panhandle varied with the rainfall received during the growing season. In the mostly d...