Friday Crop Update!

[farmaholic]

A little late posting in this thread.
Some crops look like shit here. Barley sick yellow. Canola drowning after 3.5 inches of rain in a week on top of already saturated soil. Lentils in the draws are yellow. Peas yellow in the strangest places in fields. Higher, lighter ground doing better than the lower "better" soil. We need some warm days with a breeze to warm things up and dry it up a bit. I'd never thought I would compalin about rain but.... We are typically looking for rain. I will remember this one for the rest of my life. I think this is going to take more than one year to correct itself. All the low spots that we can seed through(more often than not) are really full. Places where there are haysloughs are full past their boundries. Now I can understand the frustration that other parts of the praries suffered with excess moisture. The bin doors will remain closed for the rest of the year!!!

[freewheat]

Farmaholic, good point regarding land texture etc. My best looking stuff, oats on my lowest assessed land, a loam/clay loam dark grey soil which is rolling and better drained and higher elevation is fairly green. My best thick black clay loam/clay which is flat and high assessed with high production in dry years is in tough this year. In years like this soil assessment/texture/soil color, the guys with sandy loam are lauging. So far anyway.

[FarmRanger]

It depends on the sandy loam freewheat. We've
had some pretty bad leaching on some of ours.
This year we have the most unseeded acres
since I started farming.

I used to say that moisture was our most critical
nutrient, now I'm not so sure.

[freewheat]

Yeah at least the water may soak, but so too the nutrients.

[fjlip]

Freewheat, I went to Saskatoon today and the canola gets better west of Humboldt!
Bolting, fantastic around Petersen.

Wadena west just gets better, barley heading at Clair.

Watson to Humboldt all crops are more advanced.

Now I'm disappointed even more with our WET WET WET!

[hedgehog]

we had a wet spell like yours here in scotland in 1985,86,87. and again in 2000, 01 ,02
both times it ruined plenty and halved the land price.

[hedgehog]

in ,85 my dad cut the hay at the end of june and he went off to canada for 4 wks. when he came back i still hadnt baled it, and half the field was under water.

[farming101]

8 mph top speed in this field!

[farming101]

2nd try to link pic

http://s1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc421/farming101/

[farmaholic]

Farming101: That is bizarre, did you actually seed that?
Freewheat: some of our sandy soil is also causing problems in the discharge areas(water moving through and coming out somewhere else), we couldn't seed some ground because of it. Not that there was water standing on it but it was just too wet. Every time it rains there is water in the sprayer trails(ruts).