my 2 cents!

[SASKFARMER3]

Checking looked at field of winter wheat yesterday. Flooded dead areas 24% gone. Dying and really yellow 12% rest nice and needs some fert floated on and disease control. Oh cant get truck in field because floater is stuck in driveway. God man take a drive and see its flooding. Do you think this is normal.

[agstar77]

Bad sign, Manitoba Crop Insurance claims are already higher than for an average full year!!

[furrowtickler]

Sask crop ins will be a record no doubt.
Unseeded acreage payments will be huge.

[checking]

SF3.

I've experienced it once where every 1/10th inch shower started the water runs flowing. What wasn't seeded became winter wheat that fall.

Since you've asked about normal, well, it's not normal for floaters to get stuck in the driveway. It's not normal for machinery to be wrecked. It's not normal for fields to be torn up. If you're curious as to why it's happening to you, look in the mirror, and not the fields.

What I'm hearing is that this situation is a regular problem in certain areas, with the comment "I've got zero crop sowed.", and I'm wondering if their falls are like their springs.

I guess I'm blessed in farming "shit, or crap soils", as has been described by those who have their's rated in the top ten productive RM brackets. 64% of your neighbour's nice still beats 100% of my nice winter wheat.

[BreadWinner]

I am even starting to wonder if it will even dry up enough for winter wheat. It has rained another inch here last night and it hasnt stopped yet. Tried to spray yesterday and the standing water is everywhere, you wouldnt beleive it unless you saw it. The crops seeded are finished they cant stand that much water. Even if we can seed winter wht that is next years crop not this years. I feel for those who have pulled out all the stops to get the seed into the ground just to watch it die.

[SASKFARMER3]

Checking that was on a 90000 assessed quarter. Man you don't get it this started last fall and no it was the esso guy driving his floaters. Buddy its really wet .

[fjlip]

I heard trucks are getting stuck in RM roads in Foam Lake area. Regarding Winter Wheat, does Crop insurance require it be seeded in standing Canola stubble? I'd rather DEEP till any fallow to break up hardpan, so no WW?

[Hopperbin]

I went to the lake because I gave up on planting 61 percent and will not do any more. Colverts many running full blast yet and completely saturated ground will not dry to plant anymore, better to leave fallow and drain the water what we can, for next year. So far no yellowing on slopes but it may only be a day away. Some are playing with airplane planting, but fertilizer will still need to be put on and floaters are way behind some big messes being made with sprayers, some farmers may be fooling themselves trying to plant yet and still getting a crop around here. Already planted fields still looking ok but like I said we may only be one day from it turning yellow.

[cottonpicken]

Pardon my ignorance on it but floating on granular
fertlizer works?Without any tillage after?

[Hopperbin]

No tillage needed but the Floaters having a hard time in the fields here sinking and cannot steer.