Devasting weekend?

[SASKFARMER3]

Cotton neighbor in City farms south of Regina. its a bloody mess. Never seeded in June worried.

[parsley]

Two hours southeast of Regina. Forecast for 1 degree, but it was clear all day, so no cloud cover, and now cold tonight. Dead still. Plants are hunkered in. Pars

[silverback]

Organic crops probably better prepared for frost than conventional?

[hobbyfrmr]

Silver, the organic crops might fare a little better. Planted late, some not planted yet. It reminds me of a bumper sticker fron the 70's (?) on a junker vehicle. "I many be slow, but I am ahead of you!" Basically its just farming, the weather dictates, no one is immune from crazy bad weather. The only possible saving grace is there would be a little less cash pumped into the ground in regards to fert and chem. I say "a little" because organic burn off consists of diesel fuel, tractor hours and cultivator shovels, harrow packers, rodweeders, and all that other stone age shrapnel! Its pretty fun telling the hired man we are going to have to "pass the rod" on field #4. The industry has not found any chemical resistance to the dreadful rodweeder! Another perceived biased advantage is, there are no skulls and crossbones on the stuff we are handling. On the other hand, its not that much fun listening to frost warnings in August/early Sept. My neighbors climbed on me about organics and weed control for a couple of years, then the "bad spray" stories (too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too early, too late, not enough water volume, too much water volume. Did I miss any?) would come out to justify a "late flush" of something. Then I would say, you should spray it again, and again. Good grief they invest in a big SP sprayer, threaten me with it, then they dont want to spray the weeds that are there! I digress, ultimately its just farming, everybody just wants to grow a crop and make a living, deep down thats all they are asking for.

[agstar77]

Little shower this morning , just to freshen it up a bit.

[parsley]

Glad to see you are still blinking, silver. lol. Missed you on here.

All plants respond to nature; to climate. For example, black poplar trees turn up their leaf undersides when it is going to rain. Pars

[liberty]

Lasalle River west of Winnipeg rose several feet this weekend. It looks like a spring flood around here. There's going to be huge crop losses since the water will not get off the fields quickly enough before the plants die.

It's debatable whether any reseeding could even be accomplished by the time the fields dry up.

[SASKFARMER3]

but read just on web site that the market sees warmer weather ahead (yea July) and feels we are still going to produce a huge crop. Dah. Just love the BS. Their just better at delivering it.

[cottonpicken]

Did Sk crop insurance move their deadline,is it still the
15th?

[cottonpicken]

I guess i could do it myself,its the 20th on website.