How much $$ ??

[furrowtickler]

In the last week how many millions of dollars of crops have been destroyed?? Between hail and wind I would guess $100 mill?? I think that would be close with canola at $14 and wheat at $8...

[SASKFARMER3]

Watched neighbors standing desiccated flax
in the wind yesterday, bang and bang and
bang. When I went home the field looked a
funny color so I stopped to see. 70% of
his flax balls were you guessed it on the
ground. Oats was the same and standing
barley looks white. Yea she is huge.

[ASRG]

Sure feel for you guys. It must be devastating to lose so much when so close to harvest. Hope crop insurance is good to you.

[HappyFarmer]

I have a question for you guys, is it just me are or
is wind becoming more and more of a problem?
I'm only 30 but remember sawathing my dads
canola as a kid with a open cab 18 foot 4400
versatile on canola stands 3/4 of what we grow
now, and wouldn't hardly move and our 25 feet
seem to blow every year..

[HappyFarmer]

I have a question for you guys, is it just me are or
is wind becoming more and more of a problem?
I'm only 30 but remember sawathing my dads
canola as a kid with a open cab 18 foot 4400
versatile on canola stands 3/4 of what we grow
now, and wouldn't hardly move and our 25 feet
seem to blow every year..

[oneoff]

Certainly could be the swather.

And lodged crops mean the cut off stems aren't as receptive to rolling the swath into the stubble
And maybe you used to cut geener back then; or maybe at a stage that was more able for the swath to settle.

Canvass speed and the table angle of the various makes of swathers always seems to make a huge difference in how the swath is formed; and where in the swath that the "heads" or seed pods get concentrated across the formed swath. Also maybe you had a different roller back then that behaved differently than all the ones in use today.
And maybe back then you didn't have to wait an extra month to allow green count to diappear and so weren't exposed to an extra month of wind damage.
Just thoughts.