This year we moved away from the check variety CDC Amarillo, and into AAC Ardill and AAC Carver peas. We grew both varieties in strip trials against our AAC Barrhead peas. From the trials we found the following

Standability: AAC Carver had a consistent southern lean to it once desiccation rolled around. It was easy to pick up though, we combined it straight north and south with no issues. The Barrhead peas next to it had more variations in standability with some areas standing 4/5 feet tall at harvest and others flatter, I would chalk that up to variation in topography.

The AAC Ardill peas stood very well, had a slight lean to the west and were easy to combine. The AAC Barrheads beside them went flat, but were not as badly lodged as last year. Towards the north where the Barrheads were seeded the field had more disease pressure due to less drainage, some passes were not sprayed with fungicide due to moisture

Maturity: We seeded the Ardills and Carvers on the 13th of May, and Barrheads the 14th. Last year we ran around 105 days to maturity. Carvers and Barrheads are two of the earliest varieties in western Canada and they still took 119 days this year. The Ardill peas are supposed to be an M rating for maturity similar to CDC Amarillo and we found the rating to be on par with them. It took an extra 10 days to reach maturity over the two early maturing varieties though our relatively late seeding date may have factored into the length this year.

Yield: Previous customers will be happy to know that head to head Barrheads and Carvers ran the same. The Ardill peas with the longer maturity managed to squeeze out 6 more bushels to be the top yielding variety of the year. All yields were weighed on our truck scale.

We have good supply of all 3 varieties and all have come in at 99% germination before cleaning. Post cleaning specs will be updated on each page as they are cleaned.