What would -5C to -8C do Wednesday night?

**Braveheart** · Sep 12, 2011, 09:58

Larry, the forecast alone is having an effect. Neighbors with airplane seeded canola swathing this morning. Canola has soft green seeds. It will be a diasaster. Has the full costs in.

Heat pushed really late wheat but maurity is uneven. Low spots really green. High ground ripening and could be swathed. Frost would impact the low ground.

Limited acres of wheat. Lots of late canola.

**mbratrud** · Sep 12, 2011, 10:19

Late canola and Flax will be hurt. But most crops in SE are in the bin.

**furrowtickler** · Sep 12, 2011, 10:49

Most reseeded canola has been swathed for 5-8 days. everything else here is comming off or will be off in 10 days.

**checking** · Sep 12, 2011, 11:33

It would slow the very few grasshoppers down! Otherwise, not much for this area as harvest was finished in August, and the first week in September competed the winter wheat seeding. It came up behind the airseeders.

**hobbyfrmr** · Sep 12, 2011, 12:57

The heat really advanced late (June 2-5) seeded organic oats. The frost would be helpful to remove any green left in the stem and allow me to go swathing, and/or kill the weeds so I could straight cut. In a strange twist, it would work out well for oats. Conventional neighbors have dessicated 10-15 days ago and large majority canola is in windrows.

**GALAXIE500** · Sep 12, 2011, 13:20

Out here in the sunny southwest of Sask. mother nature did a real nice job of "dessicating" our crops and 90% is combined and in the bins by now. Heard some stories of ergot in the durum, but wheat is a #1 and protien is all over the place .

**TOM4CWB** · Sep 12, 2011, 13:28

Larry,

The vast majority of the wheat here would make at least a number 2 with some to a number three. Canola is somewhat at risk to green seed problems... but in east central Alberta there is no frost forcast for 2 weeks.

All volume is made... and the quality is getting better each day!!! A great fall!

**SASKFARMER3** · Sep 12, 2011, 21:04

Late wheat and barley and oats will effect but
only few fields. Canola most swath one half
section at Regina won't make any thing.

**fjlip** · Sep 12, 2011, 21:49

All crops mature or swathed for a while.
I'd say no ill effects from frost here.
Over 50% combined very dry, malt and #1's.

What would -5C to -8C do Wednesday night?